Richard Rawdon Stawell

Sir Richard Rawdon Stawell KBE, (14 March 1864 – 18 April 1935) was an Australian medical doctor and the President of the Victorian branch of the British Medical Association.

Stawell was born at Kew, Melbourne. Stawell did post-graduate work from 1890 to 1892.^[1] In World War I, Stawell served as Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the medical section^[1] with the 3rd Australian General Hospital.

The great immunologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet found him 'a man of much wisdom and immense charm', but with 'a waspish intolerance of stupidity'.^[1]

References

1. F. I. R. Martin (1990). "Sir Richard Rawdon Stawell (1864–1935)". Stawell, Sir Richard Rawdon (1864 - 1935). MUP. pp. 56–57. Retrieved 27 February 2010. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

• Serle, Percival (1949). "Stawell, Richard Rawdon". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 27 February 2010.

Additional References as given by the Dictionary of Australian Biography:

• The Argus, Melbourne, 20 April 1935;
• British Medical Journal, 2 March, 27 April and 4 May 1935;
• The Medical Journal of Australia, 18 May 1935

Additional references as given by the Australian Dictionary of Biography:

• Burnet, M., Changing Patterns, London, 1968.
• Casey, M., Charles S. Ryan, Melbourne, 1958
• Rank, B. K., Jerry Moore and Some of His Contemporaries, Melbourne, 1975.
• Winton, R., Why the Pomegranate? Sydney, 1988