Henry Fry
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Henry Kenneth Fry BSc BSc(Oxon), MBBS, MD, DSO (1886-1959): Rhodes Scholar, physician and anthropologist, Medical Officer for the City of Adelaide.
South Australian Museum
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- 1886: Born 25 May 1886 North Adelaide, South Australia
- Educated Prince Alfred CollegePrince Alfred CollegePrince Alfred College is an independent, day and boarding school for boys, located on Dequetteville Terrace, Kent Town, near the centre of Adelaide, South Australia...
- 1903: University of AdelaideUniversity of AdelaideThe University of Adelaide is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university in Australia...
BSc 1905, MBBS 1908, MD 1934. - 1909: Rhodes Scholar (BalliolBalliol College, OxfordBalliol College , founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England but founded by a family with strong Scottish connections....
) Obtained another BSc, and diplomas in public health and anthropology, in 1912. - 1913: Succeeded Herbert BasedowHerbert BasedowHerbert Basedow was an Australian anthropologist, geologist, politician, explorer and medical practitioner. During his working life, Basedow took part in many major geological, exploratory and medical relief expeditions to central and northern Australia.He was one of the few people of his time...
as chief medical inspector of AboriginesAustralian AboriginesAustralian Aborigines , also called Aboriginal Australians, from the latin ab originem , are people who are indigenous to most of the Australian continentthat is, to mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania...
, based in DarwinDarwin, Northern TerritoryDarwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
. - World War I:
- 1914: Appointed captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial ForceAustralian Imperial ForceThe Australian Imperial Force was the name given to all-volunteer Australian Army forces dispatched to fight overseas during World War I and World War II.* First Australian Imperial Force * Second Australian Imperial Force...
. - 1915: Gallipoli.
- 1916: France - deputy assistant director of medical services (D.A.D.M.S.), 2nd Division.
- 1916: Awarded the Distinguished Service OrderDistinguished Service OrderThe Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
for supervising the evacuation of the wounded while under constant shell-fire at PozièresPozièresPozières is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.-Geography:The commune is situated on the D929 road, some northeast of Amiens between Albert and Bapaume, on the Pozières ridge.-Population:-History:...
and Sausage ValleySausage ValleySausage Valley was the name given by British soldiers during the First World War to a shallow valley south of the village of La Boisselle in the Somme département, France. Sausage Valley was so named because the Germans would fly an observation balloon, known as a "sausage", at the head of the valley...
in July-August 1916. - 1917: Promoted lieutenant colonel and given command of the 13th Field Ambulance.
- 1914: Appointed captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force
- 1918: On 21 October 1918 he married Dorothy Editha Deeley with Anglican rites at the Church of the Epiphany, CrafersCrafers, South AustraliaThe town of Crafers is located in the Adelaide Hills to the southeast of Adelaide, South Australia. Although technically considered to be an outer suburb of Adelaide, with many residents commuting to the city to work, locals consider Crafers to be more a suburb of the nearby township of Stirling.-...
. - 1919: By January 1919 he was back in France as temporary colonel and A.D.M.S., 5th Division. His A.I.F. appointment terminated on 26 December. He was thrice mentioned in dispatches.
- 1920: Established a private practice in EastwoodEastwood, South AustraliaEastwood is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Burnside.-Government:Eastwood is covered by the federal Division of Adelaide.At State Government level, Eastwood is a part of the electoral district of Unley.-References:...
in a house of his own design which incorporated a surgery, laboratory and one of the first X-ray units in the State. - From 1920 he lectured in materia medica and therapeutics in the neurology department at the university. He was also an honorary physician at the Royal Adelaide HospitalRoyal Adelaide HospitalThe Royal Adelaide Hospital is Adelaide's largest hospital, with 680 beds. Founded in 1840, the Royal Adelaide provides tertiary health care services for South Australia and provides secondary care clinical services to residents of Adelaide's city centre and inner suburbs.The hospital is situated...
and an official visitor to Parkside Mental Hospital. - Member (from 1923) and president (1939) of the Royal Society of South AustraliaRoyal Society of South AustraliaThe Royal Society of South Australia is a Learned Society whose interest is in Science, particularly, but not only, of South Australia.The Society stems directly from the Adelaide Philosophical Society founded on the 10 January 1853. The title "Royal" was granted by her Majesty Queen Victoria in...
. - 1926: With Draper Campbell, (Sir) John ClelandJohn Burton ClelandSir John Burton Cleland CBE was a renowned Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist.-Early Life and education:...
, Frederic Wood JonesFrederic Wood JonesFrederic Wood Jones , usually referred to as Wood Jones, was a British observational naturalist, embryologist, anatomist and anthropologist, who spent considerable time in Australia....
, Robert Pulleine, and Archibald Watson, Fry formed the Board for Anthropological ResearchBoard for Anthropological ResearchThe Board for Anthropological Research sponsored over forty anthropological expeditions to study Australian Aboriginal people in the five decades following its establishment in 1926....
. - 1929-1937: Numerous medical, ethnological, and anthropological research expeditions to Aboriginal lands in Central Australia.
- 1930-57: Published over twenty scientific papers on Aboriginal kinship, psychology and mythology.
- 1937: Moved to Crafers.
- 1938: Part-time public health officer for the City of Adelaide.
- 1939: Founding fellow of the Royal Australasian College of PhysiciansRoyal Australasian College of PhysiciansThe Royal Australasian College of Physicians, or RACP, is the organisation responsible for training, educating, and representing over 9,000 physicians and paediatricians in Australia and New Zealand. It was founded in 1938....
. - 1959: Died 22 July 1959 StirlingStirling, South AustraliaStirling is a town located in the Adelaide Hills. It is administered by the Adelaide Hills Council. Its population is about 2500, though the town has largely merged with neighbouring townships such as Crafers and Aldgate. The towns closely surrounding it are: Aldgate, Crafers, Bridgewater and...
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South Australian Museum
South Australian Museum
The South Australian Museum is a museum in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultural precinct of the Adelaide Parklands.-History:...
Archives contain:
- Manuscript and typescript papers on kinship, education and other aspects of Aboriginal cultures and on the peoples of Melville and Bathurst Islands;
- notebooks and logs kept on various expeditions with notebooks for psychological tests;
- correspondence 1933-57 and with Ursula McConnelUrsula McConnelUrsula Hope McConnel was a Queensland anthropologist and ethnographer best remembered for her work with, and the records she made of the Wik Mungkan people of Cape York Peninsula....
on the social organisation of Aboriginal cultures 1950-52; - bibliography of papers on anthropology by South Australian research workers 1927-38;
- transcription from the original of 'A Short History of New Australia' by H.K. Fry;
- miscellaneous paintings, extracts, maps and
- a notebook dated 1875 kept by Dr. Lumbers.
See also
- Jones, Philip, 'Fry, Henry Kenneth (1896-1959), Anthropologist and Medical Practitioner', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 230–231.
- The H.K. Fry Memorial Prize for Psychological Medicine
- 1908 photo of Fry on graduation with MBBS (Fry is in the centre, seated). Information about the photo.
- 1915 photo of Fry at Gallipoli (Australian War Memorial archives). Information about the circumstances of the photo (ANZACDay.org.au)
