| Authorised form of name | Fairley; Neil Hamilton (1891 - 1966) |
| Dates | 1891 - 1966 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Place of birth | Inglewood, Victoria, Australia |
| Date of birth | 15 July 1891 |
| Place of death | Surrey, England |
| Date of death | 20/04/1966 |
| Activity | Education:
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)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1942 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Buchanan Medal 1957 |
| Relationships | Married: 1) Violet May Phillips (dissolved 1924), one son; 2) Mary Greaves (1925); two sons |
| Source | Sources:
AE
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1966 vol 12 pp 123-145, plate, by John Boyd |
| Code | NA3560 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/WS/4470 | Fairley, Neil Hamilton | |
| IM/001350 | Fairley, Neil Hamilton | July 1956 |
| IM/001351 | Fairley, Neil Hamilton | July 1956 |
| IM/GA/WS/4470/A | Fairley, Neil Hamilton | nd |
| IM/GA/WS/4470/B | Fairley, Neil Hamilton | nd |
| CD/64/41 | Letter 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/64/34 | Extract of a letter from Neil Hamilton Fairley, Bombay [Mumbai, India], to Charles James Martin | 28 April 1922 |
| CD/64/38 | Letter from Neil Hamilton Fairley, Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory, Parel, Bombay, to [William Bate Hardy] the Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London | 15 July 1922 |
| IM/GA/WS/2556 | Fairley, Neil Hamilton | 1946 |
| EC/1942/06 | Fairley, Neil Hamilton: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/74/5 | Letter from Neil Hamilton Fairley, on a paper 'Amoebicidal action and chemical constitution' by J D Fulton, L P Joyner, Harold King, J M Osbond and Jean Wright, to D C Martin | 24 March 1950 |
| RR/74/6 | Referee's report by Neil Hamilton Fairley, on a paper 'Amoebicidal action and chemical constitution' by J D Fulton, L P Joyner, Harold King, J M Osbond and Jean Wright | 24 March 1950 |