Biographical entry Birrell, John Henry Winter (1924 - 2003)

Summary

John Birrell was police surgeon 1957-1977. He campaigned for road safety and was involved in the introduction of seatbelt laws and the blood alcohol limit of 0.05 per cent in Victoria.

Details

Events

1942 - 1943

Career position - Served in the Australian Imperial Force

1952 - 1956

Career position - Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Victoria

1952 - 1956

Career position - Lecturer in Pathology at the University of Melbourne

1956 - 1957

Career position - Assistant Coroner's Pathologist

1957 - 1977

Career position - Police Surgeon in Victoria

1967 - 1977

Career position - Member of the International Committee for Alcohol and Traffic Safety

1977

Career position - Chairman of the 7th Conference on Alcohol and traffic Safety in Melbourne

1978

Award - Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

1997

Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) received

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Biographical cuttings on Dr John Henry Winter Birrell, police surgeon, Cuttings Files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

• Birrell, J. H. W., Twenty Years as a Police Surgeon, Brolga Publishing, Ringwood, 2004, 104 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Birrell, J., 'Mollison, Crawford Henry (1863-1949), Medical and Forensic Pathologist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 540-541. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100530b.htm. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Gibb, Donald, 'Obituary: John Henry Winter Birrell, OAM, Former police surgeon, general practitioner', The Age, 4 April 2003. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Birrell, John', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-615382. Details