Person

Newton, Wilberforce Stephen (Bill) (1890 - 1956)

Kt

Born
27 December 1890
Brighton, Victoria, Australia
Died
3 October 1956
Occupation
Physician

Summary

Bill Newton was a physician who for over 30 years was associated with the Alfred Hospital. Melbourne. He was a member of the Hospital's Board for 20 years, and as Dean of the clinical school was determined that it should one of Australia's leading schools. Newton was a recognised authority in diseases of the chest. He made significant contributions through his membership of the Victorian Government's Consultative Committee on Tuberculosis and the executive committee of Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, serving as Vice-president 1950 - 1952.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

1915
Education - MB BS, University of Melbourne
1915 - 1918
Career position - Served with the Royal Army Medical Corps
1918 - 1923
Career position - Medical Superintendent (later Clinical Assistant), Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
1920
Education - MD, University of Melbourne
1923 - 1933
Career position - Honorary Physician to Outpatients, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
1930 - 1938
Career position - Member, Association of Physicians of Australasia
1933 - 1948
Career position - Honorary Physician to Inpatients, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
1937 - 1956
Career position - Member, Board of Management, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
1938 - 1956
Career position - Foundation Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
1944 - 1955
Career position - Member of Council, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
1948
Life event - Retired
1950
Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt)
1950 - 1952
Career position - Vice-President, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Related Corporate Bodies

Published resources

Books

  • McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 332 pp. Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Turnbull, Hume, 'Obituary: Wilberforce Stephen Newton', Medical Journal of Australia, 1957 (1) (1957), 122-3. Details

Resources

See also

  • Alfred Healthcare Group Heritage Committee ed., Alfred Hospital: Faces and Places volume I(-III) (Prahran, Vic.: Alfred Healthcare Group, 1996-2004), 360 pp. Details

Helen Cohn

Last modified: 3 July 2018

EOAS ID: biogs/P005836b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005836b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260