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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003942b.htm person Hughes Ernest Selwyn AACR2 12 May 1860 16 June 1942 Place of Birth Cobram, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Aspendale, Victoria, Australia Ernest Hughes was vicar of St Peter's, Eastern Hill 1900-1926. In 1915 he led a deputation of the members of the Melbourne Metropolitan Hospitals Board of Supplies waiting on the Minister for Customs, recommending that 'a Federal Government Institute for the preparation of therapeutic sera, vaccines and organ extracts should be established'. This was one of the factors that led to the establishment of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in 1916.

Born Cobram, Victoria, 12 May 1860. Died Aspendale, Victoria, 16 June 1942. Curate, St Peter's, Eastern Hill 1894-1900, vicar 1900-1926.

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 'Hughes, Ernest Selwyn', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hughes, Ernest Selwyn Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Hughes, Ernest Selwyn (1860-1942), Anglican clergyman Harper, Norman Hughes, Ernest Selwyn (1860-1942), Anglican clergyman Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 388-389 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000