Biographical entry Lockett, Mary Fauriel (Fauriel) (1911 - 1982)

Summary

Mary Fauriel (Fauriel) Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-72. Prior to that she had been Head of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Chelsea College of Science and Technology, London 1951-62. Her research included studies on diuretics and the role of the kidney in causing oedemal dropsy in heart disease.

Details

Educated Universities of London (bachelor's degrees in medicine and science and a doctorate of medicine) and Cambridge (PhD in pharmacology).

Events

1937

Career position - Church Missionary Society in Egypt

1941

Career position - Junior Beit Memorial Fellow at Cambridge, UK

1945

Career position - Lecturer in Pharmacology at University College, London

1950

Career position - Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Glasgow

1951 - 1962

Career position - Head of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Chelsea College of Science and Technology, London

1962 - 1963

Career position - Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Reader at Chelsea

1963 - 1972

Career position - Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Western Australia

Archival resources

University of Western Australia, University Archives

• Mary Fauriel Lockett - Records, 1963 - 1972; University of Western Australia, University Archives. Details

Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Lockett Mary Fauriel', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476436. Details