Biographical entry Jones, William Ernest (1867 - 1957)

Summary

William Ernest Jones was appointed Inspector-General of the Insane (1905), later Director of Mental Hygiene, in Victoria and held this office until 1937. He also served on various government inquiries into mental hygiene.

Details

Events

1905 - 1937

Career position - Inspector-General of the insane in Victoria

c. 1914 - c. 1918

Career position - War service with the Australian Army Medical Corps

1921

Career position - Chair of the commission of inquiry into lunacy in Western Australia

1929

Career position - Ran a Federal Government inquiry into the mentally deficient

1933

Career position - Advisor to the Tasmanian government on the rebuilding of New Norfolk Asylum

1935

Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

1947

Career position - Chaired a government inquiry into the Victorian Health Department

Archival resources

Charles Brothers Museum, Mental Health Library, Office of Psychiatric Services

• William Ernest Jones - Records, 1905 - 1957; Charles Brothers Museum, Mental Health Library, Office of Psychiatric Services. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Foster, S. G., 'Jones, William Ernest (1867-1957), psychiatrist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 520-521. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090518b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Jones, William Ernest', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467273. Details