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Home Coming meetings Past meetings About the Society Galleries of the Virtual Museum Main Galleries Medicine Surgery Anaesthesia X-rays Hospitals,other organisations Individuals of note Small Galleries Dentistry Nursing Ethnic medicine - Aboriginal - Chinese - Mediterran	Alfred Lendon MD, MRCS [1857-1935] "Few practitioners have exerted a wider influence on medical science in South Australia" A photograph of Alfred Lendon, from files of the University of Adelaide. Alfred Austin Lendon was born and educated in England obtaining an MD(Lond) and MRCS LSA(University College Hospital) before migrating to Australia. In 1883 Lendon arrived in Adelaide having served as ship's surgeon on the voyage. Here he joined the practice of Dr John Davies Thomas (1844-1893) and became a Government Medical Officer, later becoming lecturer in Forensic Medicine and then lecturer in Obstetrics and Diseases of Infancy at the University of Adelaide. For some years Lendon also served as a member of the University Council and Dean of the faculty of Medicine. He was honorary physician at the Adelaide Hospital, consulting surgeon and Vice-President of the board of the Adelaide Children's Hospital. Becoming president of the District Trained Nursing Society, he guided it from a near-bankrupt organization to a strong institution. He also served for several years as national President of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association and President of the Medical Board of South Australia. Moreover, he was honorary Secretary and then President of the South Australian Branch of the British Medical Association (later the AMA) for two terms a decade apart. Lendon was an author and medical historian. Besides publishing two books ("Hydatid Disease of the Lung" and "Nodal Fever") and contributing to many professional journals, he wrote a series of biographical articles on early South Australian physicians, as well as a history of the University of Adelaide Medical School celebrating in 1935 its fifty-year anniversary of foundation. This he completed shortly before his death. Apart from medical interests, Lendon was a founder and first President of the Numismatic Society of South Australia, President of the Commonwealth Club and a member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. In 1887 Lendon married Lucy Rymill (1865-1929). They went on to have a daughter and two sons, both of whom became medical doctors. PK -o0o-

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Alfred Lendon MD, MRCS [1857-1935]

"Few practitioners have exerted a wider influence on medical science in South Australia"

A photograph of Alfred Lendon, from files of the University of Adelaide.

Alfred Austin Lendon was born and educated in England obtaining an MD(Lond) and MRCS LSA(University College Hospital) before migrating to Australia.

In 1883 Lendon arrived in Adelaide having served as ship's surgeon on the voyage. Here he joined the practice of Dr John Davies Thomas (1844-1893) and became a Government Medical Officer, later becoming lecturer in Forensic Medicine and then lecturer in Obstetrics and Diseases of Infancy at the University of Adelaide.

For some years Lendon also served as a member of the University Council and Dean of the faculty of Medicine. He was honorary physician at the Adelaide Hospital, consulting surgeon and Vice-President of the board of the Adelaide Children's Hospital. Becoming president of the District Trained Nursing Society, he guided it from a near-bankrupt organization to a strong institution. He also served for several years as national President of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association and President of the Medical Board of South Australia. Moreover, he was honorary Secretary and then President of the South Australian Branch of the British Medical Association (later the AMA) for two terms a decade apart.

Lendon was an author and medical historian. Besides publishing two books ("Hydatid Disease of the Lung" and "Nodal Fever") and contributing to many professional journals, he wrote a series of biographical articles on early South Australian physicians, as well as a history of the University of Adelaide Medical School celebrating in 1935 its fifty-year anniversary of foundation. This he completed shortly before his death.

Apart from medical interests, Lendon was a founder and first President of the Numismatic Society of South Australia, President of the Commonwealth Club and a member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.

In 1887 Lendon married Lucy Rymill (1865-1929). They went on to have a daughter and two sons, both of whom became medical doctors.

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