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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2002-11-20 human Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-27 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004145b.htm person Wilson Ellen Mary Kent MBE AACR2 Hughes, Ellen Mary Kent Kent Hughes, Ellen Mary 29 August 1893 16 May 1979 Place of Birth Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Armidale, New South Wales, Australia Physician Local councillor Ellen Mary K. Wilson, who practiced under her maiden name Hughes, completed her medical training at the University of Melbourne, graduating MB BS in 1917. After two years at the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane she became a Consulting Physician at the Armidale and New England Hospital, New South Wales. In Armidale she combined family with medical practice community service including 30 years on the local council. Of particular concern to her was the health of the local Aboriginal community. Her publications in the Medical Journal of Australia include "Syphilis in children" (October 1919) and "The role of the private practitioner in the prevention of disease" (May 1967). She served as a Justice of the Peace and was appointed MBE - Member of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) - 1 January 1968 for medicine. 1917 1917 Education - MB BS, University of Melbourne 1918 1919 Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane 1919 1960? Career position - Consulting Physician at the Armidale and New England Hospital, New South Wales 1923 1924 Career position - Member of Council, Shire of Kingaroy, Queensland 1928 1928 Career event - Established medical practice in Armidale, New South Wales 1937 1968 Career position - Member of Council, City of Armidale, New South Wales 1963 1964 Career position - Deputy Mayor, City of Armidale, New South Wales 1968 1968 Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) 1971 1971 Award - Fellow, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners 1977 1977 Life event - Retired from medical practice Hughes, Wilfrid Kent (1865 - 1941) Wilson, Ellen Mary Kent

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 'Wilson, Ellen Mary Kent', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Wilson, Ellen Mary Kent Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Invisible victims: Queensland children and the 1919 influenza epidemic Pearn, John Invisible victims: Queensland children and the 1919 influenza epidemic 2020 Queensland history journal 24 4 399-409 Book Section: Kent Hughes, Ellen Mary (1893-1979), medical practitioner and alderman Gilbert, L. A. Kent Hughes, Ellen Mary (1893-1979), medical practitioner and alderman Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2000 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie John Ritchie 5-6 Journal Article: Medical Women in Queensland: Characters and Charisma Williams, Lesley M. Medical Women in Queensland: Characters and Charisma 2007 Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland 20 4 134-138