James Barrett (academic)
Sir James Barrett | |
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 James Barrett c. 1914 | |
| Born | 27 February 1862 South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 6 April 1945 (aged 83) |
Sir James William Barrett, KBE, CB, CMG (27 February 1862[1] – 6 April 1945) was an Australian ophthalmologist and academic administrator.
Born in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,[1] he was educated at the University of Melbourne and King's College London.[2]
During World War I he organised a successful open-air hospital in the grounds of Luna Park, Cairo, for military casualties from the Gallipoli landings. [3]
He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne from 1931 to 1934, and then as Chancellor from 1935 to 1939.[4] He was President of the British Medical Association from 1935 to 1936,[5] and the inaugural president of the Victorian Town Planning and Parks Association, now the Town and Country Planning Association.[6] He was a notable supporter of Jewish refugee migration to Australia by persons fleeing Nazism.[7]
Bibliography
[edit]- The Australian medical corps in Egypt (1918)
- The twin ideals: An educated Commonwealth (1918)
- The war work of the Y.M.C.A. In Egypt (1919)
- A vision of the possible (1919)
- The diary of an Australian soldier (1921)
- Save Australia (1925)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Biography – Sir James William Barrett – Australian Dictionary of Biography". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
- ^ ‘BARRETT, Lt-Col Sir James William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007
- ^ The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt; an illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915 by Barrett, James William; Deane, P. E. London: H.K. Lewis (1918).
- ^ Murray-Smith, S. Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 29 November 2017 – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ^ "Home". University of Melbourne Archives. 31 October 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
- ^ "About the TCPA". Town and Country Planning Association. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ^ Rubinstein, Hilary L., 'Sir James Barrett (1862–1945): Australian philosemite', Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 12:1, Nov 1993, pp.91–100.
Further reading
[edit]- Roe, Michael (1984). "James William Barrett: 1862–1945". Nine Australian Progressives: Vitalism in Bourgeois Social Thought 1890–1960. University of Queensland Press. pp. 57–88. ISBN 0702219746.
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- ^ "University Secretar's Department : University Calendar-Former Office-Bearers : The University of Melbourne". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
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