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Authorised form of nameFairley; Neil Hamilton (1891 - 1966)
Dates1891 - 1966
NationalityAustralian
Place of birthInglewood, Victoria, Australia
Date of birth15 July 1891
Place of deathSurrey, England
Date of death20/04/1966
ActivityEducation:
MBBS (Melbourne, 1915); MD, DSc
Career:
Served in the Australian Army Medical Corps (World War 1); Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne (1920); Medical Research Officer, Bombay; returned to Hall Institute (1927); Lecturer, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1929-1940); Consulting Physician, Australian Military Forces (1940-1942); Director of Medicine and Chairman, Combined Advisory Committee on Tropical Medicine, South Pacific Area (1942-1946); Professor of Tropical Medicine, London (1946); resigned on health grounds (1948)
Honours:
OBE 1918; CBE 1941; KBE 1950
Memberships:
FRCP; Royal Society of Tropical Health and Hygience (President 1951)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/03/1942
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Buchanan Medal 1957
RelationshipsMarried: 1) Violet May Phillips (dissolved 1924), one son; 2) Mary Greaves (1925); two sons
SourceSources:
AE
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1966 vol 12 pp 123-145, plate, by John Boyd
CodeNA3560
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/WS/4470Fairley, Neil Hamilton
IM/001350Fairley, Neil HamiltonJuly 1956
IM/001351Fairley, Neil HamiltonJuly 1956
IM/GA/WS/4470/AFairley, Neil Hamiltonnd
IM/GA/WS/4470/BFairley, Neil Hamiltonnd
CD/64/41Letter from Neil Hamilton Fairley, Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory, Parel, Bombay, to [William Bate Hardy] Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London 4 September 1922
CD/64/34Extract of a letter from Neil Hamilton Fairley, Bombay [Mumbai, India], to Charles James Martin28 April 1922
CD/64/38Letter from Neil Hamilton Fairley, Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory, Parel, Bombay, to [William Bate Hardy] the Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London15 July 1922
IM/GA/WS/2556Fairley, Neil Hamilton1946
EC/1942/06Fairley, Neil Hamilton: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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