- Kate Isabel Campbell
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Dame Kate Campbell, FRCOG, DBE (22 April 1899—12 July 1986) was a noted Australian physician and paediatrician.
Born at Hawthorn, Melbourne of Scottish descent, Kate Isabel Campbell was the third of four siblings. The youngest sibling, Campbell's youngest brother, Donald, was the barrister who defended Frank Hardy in the notorious Power without Glory trial.[1]
Kate Campbell won a junior government scholarship that enabled her to attend the nearby Methodist Ladies' College. In 1917, supported by a senior government scholarship, she was able to attend the University of Melbourne (MB, BS, 1922; MD, 1924). She graduated from medical school with such luminaries as (Sir) Frank Macfarlane Burnet and (Dame) Jean Macnamara.[2] Despite sexism and discrimination against women then seeking medical careers, Campbell was named as "honorary paediatrician" to the Queen Victoria Hospital in 1926, retiring in 1965.
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Honours
- OBE (1954)
- DBE (1971)
- Hon. LL.D, University of Melbourne (1966)
Death
Campbell retired in 1976 and died on 12 July 1986 at Camberwell, Melbourne, aged 87. She never married.
Legacy
References
- ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography entry
- ^ ADB, op cit, supra
Source
- McCalman, Janet. "Campbell, Dame Kate Isabel (1899 - 1986)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, Melbourne University Press, pp. 185-86 (year??)
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Categories:- 1899 births
- 1986 deaths
- Australian dames
- Australian medical doctors
- Australian people of Scottish descent
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Pediatricians
- Medical doctors from Melbourne
- University of Melbourne alumni
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