Biographical entry Stawell, Richard Rawdon (1864 - 1935)

Summary

(Sir) Richard Rawdon Stawell was honorary physician to the Children's Hospital, Melbourne from 1893-1914, to out-patients at Melbourne Hospital from 1903-19, to in-patients from 1919-24 and a consulting physician from 1924. He also had a successful private practice. He was particularly concerned with the wider responsibilities of the medical profession in society. Stawell is commemorated by the Sir Richard Stawell Oration which was given in Melbourne from 1934 to 1986.

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Events

1887

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) completed at the University of Melbourne

1888

Education - Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne

1890

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

1890 - 1892

Education - Postgraduate work in the United Kingdom (London) and Germany (Tübingen)

1891

Education - Diploma of Public Health completed in London

1893 - 1908

Career position - Private practice in Collins Street Melbourne

1893 - 1914

Career position - Honorary Physician at the Children's Hospital in Melbourne

1903 - 1919

Career position - Honorary Physician of out-patients at the Melbourne Hospital

1905 - 1935

Career position - Member of the Melbourne Hospital board of management

1908 - 1935

Career position - Private practice in Spring Street Melbourne

1910

Career position - President of the British Medical Association, Victorian branch

1915 - 1916

Career position - Head of the medical section of the 3rd Australian General Hospital, Australian Imperial Force

1916 -

Career position - Member of the appeal board of the Repatriation Department

1917 - 1924

Career position - Physician to in-patients at the Melbourne Hospital

1920

Career position - President of the Melbourne Club

1924 -

Career position - Consulting Physician at the Melbourne Hospital

1928

Career position - President of the Melbourne Hospital board of management

1929

Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt cr)

1930 - 1932

Career position - Inaugural President of the Association of Physicians of Australasia (later the Royal Australasian College of Physicians)

1930 - 1935

Career position - Chairman of the Victorian Council of Mental Hygiene

Published resources

Book Sections

• Martin, F. I. R., 'Stawell, Sir Richard Rawdon (1864-1935), Physician', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 56-57. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120070b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Cowan, R. W. T., 'Some Problems of our Expanding Universities. Sir Richard Stawell Oration', Medical Journal of Australia, no. 1, 1962, pp. 189-196. Details
• Kellaway, C. H., 'The Sir Richard Stawell Oration. (Aspects of medical research in Australian medical Schools).', Medical Journal of Australia, no. 1, 1938, pp. 365-374. Details
• Stawell, R. R., 'The Halford Oration. The Foundations of the Medical School and the Future of Medical Education', Medical Journal of Australia, no. 1, 1931, pp. 1-8. Details

Online Resources

• 'Stawell, Richard', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1303931. Details

See also

• Fenner, F., 'Frank Macfarlane Burnet, 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 39-77. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870710039.htm. Details