Biographical entry Cherry, Thomas (1861 - 1945)

Summary

Thomas Cherry was appointed the first Professor of Agriculture at the University of Melbourne 1911-16 and was later the John Grice Research Fellow in cancer at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and at the Veterinary Research Institute, Melbourne 1921-34.

Details

Born Gisborne, Victoria, 27 October 1861. Died Melbourne, 27 May 1945. Educated University of Melbourne (MB 1889, MD 1892, MS 1894), King's College, London and University of Aberdeen (pathology and bacteriology). Worked in his father's joinery workshop 1877-84; senior house surgeon, Melbourne Hospital 1890; overseas study 1891; assistant lecturer and demonstrator in pathology, University of Melbourne 1892-93; bacteriological work in Europe 1894; bacteriological service to doctors and hospitals, Melbourne 1895-99; lecturer in bacteriology, University of Melbourne 1900-05; acting registrar of the university 1901-02; director of agriculture 1905-10; professor of agriculture, University of Melbourne 1911-16; Australian Army Medical Corps 1916-18; John Grice Cancer Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research 1921-29, John Grice Cancer Research Fellow, Veterinary Research Institute, University of Melbourne 1930-34; Cancer Causation Research Committee from 1934. Portrait by Aileen Dent presented to the University of Melbourne 1944.

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Thomas Cherry - Records, 1937, MS 41; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Private hands (Stowell, J.)

• Thomas Cherry - Records, 1861 - 1945; Private hands (Stowell, J.). Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Stowell, Jill, 'Cherry, Thomas (1861-1945), bacteriologist and agricultural scientist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 633-634. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070642b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Dr. Thomas Cherry', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 8, no. 2-3, 1945, p. 68. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Cherry, Thomas', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-557703. Details

See also

• Caro, D. E.; Martin, R. L., 'Leslie Harold Martin 1900-1983', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 97-107. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870710097.htm. Details