Person
Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872 - 1960)
OBE
- Born
- 24 June 1872
Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 27 November 1960
Wellington, New Zealand - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Agnes Bennett practised in Wellington, New Zealand from 1905 and was Chief Medical Officer at St. Helens Maternity Hospital 1908-1936.
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Chronology
- 1894
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
- 1899
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM) completed at the College of Medicine for Women, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1901 - 1904
- Career position - Private practice in Sydney
- 1904 - 1905
- Career position - Junior Medical Officer at the Hospital for the Insane in Callan Park
- 1905 - ?
- Career position - Private practice in Wellington, New Zealand
- 1908 - 1936
- Career position - Chief Medical Officer at St Helen's Maternity Hospital
- 1910 - ?
- Career position - Honorary Physician in the children's ward at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand
- 1911
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the College of Medicine for Women, University of Edinburgh
- 1915
- Career position - First female commissioned Officer in the British Army
- 1916 - 1917
- Career position - In charge of a unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals on the Serbian front
- 1923
- Career position - First President of the Wellington branch of the International Federation of University Women
- 1938 - 1939
- Career position - Medical Officer in Burketown, North Queensland
- 1940 - 1942
- Career position - English hospitals
- 1942 - c. 1945
- Career position - Lectured to the women's services in New Zealand on venereal disease and birth control
- 1948
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Manson, Cecil and Manson, Celia, Doctor Agnes Bennett (London: Michael Joseph, 1960), 189 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Curthoys, Ann, 'Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872-1960), medical practitioner' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), p. 265. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070265b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4693030. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/84811671. Details
- 'Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth (1872-1960)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-765096. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872-1960), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0099b.htm. Details
See also
- McCarthy, Louella, 'Finding a space for women: the British Medical Association and women doctors in Australia, 1880 - 1939', Medical History, 62 (1) (2018), 91-111. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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