Biographical entry Lancaster, Henry Oliver (1913 - 2001)

Summary

Henry Oliver Lancaster was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor of Medical Statistics at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney 1946-59 and Professor of Mathematical Statistics 1959-78.

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Events

1937

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at University of Sydney

c. 1937 - c. 1939

Career position - Resident Medical Officer and Resident Pathologist at the Sydney Hospital

c. 1939

Career position - Junior Fellow in Medicine of the Postgraduate Medical Foundation at Prince Henry Hospital

c. 1940

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at the University of Sydney

1940 - 1946

Career position - Pathologist with the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

1946 - 1959

Career position - Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Medical Statistics at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney

1948 - 1949

Career position - Rockefeller Fellow in Medicine at the London School of Hygiene

1952 - 1953

Career position - President of the Statistical Society of New South Wales

1953

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Sydney

1959 - 1971

Career position - Editor of the Australian Journal of Statistics

1961 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1965 - 1966

Career position - President of the Statistical Society of Australia

1966

Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD) completed at the University of Sydney

1966 - 1967

Career position - President of the Australian Mathematical Society

1971

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Sydney

1980

Award - Pitman Medal received from the Statistical Society of Australia

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Henry Oliver Lancaster - Records, 1934 - 1947, MS 103; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Henry Oliver Lancaster - Records, 1933 - 1974, DeB 760; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Lancaster, H. O., 'Baldwin, Alec Hutcheson (1891-1971), Professor of Tropical Medicine', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 13, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1993, pp. 97-98. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130116b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Backhouse, T. C.; Lancaster, H. O., 'Obituary: James Joscelyn Lawrence', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 23, no. 3, 1960, pp. 76-77. Details
• Lancaster, H. O., 'An Early Statistician: John Graunt (1620-1674)', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 2, no. 19, 1962, pp. 734-738. Details
• Lancaster, H. O., 'Obituary: Norman McAlister Gregg', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 29, no. 4, 1966, p. 104. Details
• Lancaster, H. O., 'Charles Henry Wickens, 1872-1939 [includes list of publications]', Australian Journal of Statistics, vol. 16, no. 2, 1974, pp. 71-82. Details
• Lancaster, H. O., 'Tables of Mortality Rates for Australia, 1881-1980', Refrence Australia, vol. 1, November, 1987, pp. 3-26. Details
• Lancaster, H. O. and Gordon, D., 'Health and Medicine in Australia, 1788-1988', Refrence Australia, vol. 2, May, 1988, pp. 21-49. Details
• Seneta, E. and Eagleson, G.K., 'Henry Oliver Lancaster 1913-200', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 15, no. 2, 2004. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR04005.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Lancaster, H O', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-496688. Details