Owen, Morris David (1917 - 2004)

Summary

Morris Owen was an inaugural Trustee and Archivist of the J P Trainor Archives Trust, Royal Australasian College of Radiologists. The Morris D Owen Radiology Historical Collection, now called the Trainor/Owen Collection, within the Trust's archive was named in his honour. Morris painstaking worked on the collections since April 1967 and built them up to the superb records they are today of the history of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists of which he was a Fellow. In 1993 he was awarded the College's Gold Medal for his more than 30 years service to the Archives. His publications include guides to the College's archives and tributes to deceased radiologists.

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Chronology

1967 - 1972

Career position - Archivist, College of Radiologists of Australasia

1972 - 1998

Career position - Archivist, Royal Australasian College of Radiologists

1987 -

Career position - Trustee, J. P. Trainor Archive Trust, Royal Australasian College of Radiologists

1993

Award - Gold Medal, Royal Australasian College of Radiologists

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• Grainger, Ronald G., 'Dr Morris Owen - Retirement of Archivist', RANZCR Newsletter, 2 (29) (2004), 8-9. Details
• Owen, M., 'Kathleen Ruth Corin Shedden, MG, ChM., MRACR, 1901-1983. A Pioneer Country Radiologist', Australasian Radiology, 32 (4) (1988), 515-517. Details
• Owen, Morris, 'A history of radiology at the Tamworth Hospital to 1925', Australasian radiology, 15 (2) (1971), 287-92. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1971.tb01280.x. Details
• Owen, Morris, 'The Archives of the College: guide to the history collection - the D. R. Carter Collection parts I, II: H1068-H1139', Australasian radiology, 31 (4) (1987), 342-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1987.tb01848.x. Details
• Owen, Morris D., 'Australian X-ray martyrs: Frederick William Dean Collier and Frederick Robert Forster', Australasian radiology, 6 (2) (1962), 90-3. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1962.tb01097.x. Details
• Owen, Morris D., 'The Department of Medical History on the University of Melbourne and the first Australian Seminar on Medical History', Australasian radiology, 11 (4) (1967), 305-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1967.tb01543.x. Details
• Owen, Morris D., 'The Archives of the College: guide to the Herbert Roy Sear Collection', Australasian radiology, 13 (3) (1969), 268-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1969.tb01604x. Details
• Owen, Morris D., 'The Archives of the College: guide to the Herbert Roy Sear Collection (continued)', Australasian radiology, 14 (3) (1970), 332-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1970.tb01643.x. Details
• Owen, Morris D., 'William Angwin Edwards and radiography in the World war 1914 - 1918', Australasian radiology, 15 (3) (1971), 285-6. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1971.tb01279.x. Details
• Owen, Morris D., 'The Archives of the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists: guide to the history collection, sundry accessions H675 - H680', Australasian radiology, 22 (3) (1978), 222-5, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1978.tb02062.x. Details
• Owen, Morris D., 'The Archives of the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists: guide to the history collection H706-H765 sundry accessions', Australasian radiology, 26 (1) (1982), 30-40, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1892.tb02272.x. Details
• Owen, Morris; with Morgan, Helen, 'Alfred Patroni: an Enterprising Engineer', Australasian Science, 19 (7) (1998), 48. Details

Resources

• 'Owen, Morris (1917-20040824)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476462. Details

See also

• Ryan, James, Sutton, Keith and Baigent, Malcolm eds, Australasian Radiology: a History (Sydney: McGraw-Hill, 1996), 542 pp. Details