- Cecil Purser
Infobox Person
name= Cecil Purser
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birth_date= Birth date |1862|12|16
birth_place=Castle Hill, New South Wales
death_date= Death date |1953|1|13
death_place=Wahroonga, New South Wales
education=Newington College University of Sydney Royal College of Physicians Royal Australasian College of Physicians
occupation=physician
title= Dr Cecil Purser
spouse= Louisa Victoria, née Brierley (d.1937)
parents= James Purser and Mary Ann, née Kyle
children= Two sons and one daughter
nationality=Australian
website= http://www.usyd.edu.au/senate/purser.shtmlDr Cecil Purser FRACP, (16 December 1862 -13 January 1953 ) was anAustralia nphysician and served terms as chairman ofRoyal Prince Alfred Hospital and vice-chancellor and deputy chancellor of theUniversity of Sydney . cite web
first=Rosslyn
last=Finn
title =Purser, Cecil (1862 - 1953)
publisher =Australian National University
work =Australian Dictionary of Biography
url =http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110320b.htm
accessdate = 2008-06-26 ]Birth and education
Purser was born at
Castle Hill, New South Wales , the eldest son of James Purser and Mary Ann, née Kyle. He attended school locally in Castle Hill and later atNewington College (1879-1881). [Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 161 ] In 1882 he went up to the University of Sydney and was a resident of St Andrew's College. Whilst at university he was captain of the cricket XI and was a noted atthlete. He graduated as aBachelor of Arts in 1885 and as a Bachelor of Medicine and Chemistry in 1890. cite web
title =Alumni Sydneienses
publisher =University of Sydney
url =http://www.bull.usyd.edu.au/as/
accessdate = 2008-06-26 ]Medical career
After appointments as a resident medical officer and a medical superintendent at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Purser began private practice in Petersham in 1893. In the same year he married Louisa Victoria Brierley in the
Congregational church . In 1896 he became an honorary at Royal Prince Alfred in 1896 and from 1912 until his death he was a consultant physician with rooms inMacquarie Street, Sydney . The prevention and treatment ofpulmonary tuberculosis was his speciality. He was a member of the Tuberculosis Advisory Board and theNew South Wales Board of Health and of the councils of the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley, and Crown Street Women's Hospital. He joined the board of the RPAH in 1909 and was vice-chairman for three years before his appointment as chairman in 1924. During his term of office the Rockefeller Building was contructed on the hospital campus. In 1933 he resigned as chairman of Prince Alfred due to his annoyance at the shortage of government financial support. On the foundation of theRoyal Australasian College of Physicians in 1938, Purser was appointed aFellow .Educational appointments
Purser was elected to the
senate of the University of Sydney in 1909 and was vice-chancellor in 1917, 1918 and 1923. In 1924 and 1925 he served as deputy chancellor. He was an examiner within the faculty of medicine for 19 years from 1911. Puser served on the councils of St Andrew's College, Wesley College,The Women's College and Newington College and was for a term president of the Old Newingtonians' Union.Community involvement
From 1893 he was a member of the
Royal Society of New South Wales and for a term chaired the public health and kindred sciences section of the Society. Purser was honorarymajor in theAustralian Army Medical Corps Reserve.Portrait
* Jerrold Nathan - held by the
University of Sydney Bibliography
* Centenary Book of the
University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine (Syd, 1984)
*Medical Journal of Australia , 28 Mar 1953
* Royal Prince Alfred Gazette, 22 July 1933
* Sydney University Medical Journal, June 1917
*Sydney Morning Herald , 11 July 1933, 2 May 1941References
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