Bryce, Lucy M. (Lucy Meredith) (1897-1968)

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Bryce, Lucy Meredith (1897-1968)
Field of activity
Haematologist; bacteriologist; haematologist; medical scientist; pathologist; Red Cross administrator
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Biographies

BRYCE, LUCY MEREDITH (1897-1968), haematologist, was born on 12 June 1897 at Lindfield, New South Wales, eldest child of Robert Bryce, commercial traveller, and his wife Margaret Annie Lucy, née Doak, of Sydney. When Lucy was 11 the family moved to Melbourne, where her father later founded the firm of R. Bryce & Sons, merchants and importers. Lucy was educated at Melbourne Church of England Girls' Grammar School and the University of Melbourne (B.Sc., 1918; M.B., B.S., 1922).

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Lucy Bryce worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne 1922-1928, 1934-1946, and at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories 1939-1944. She was also a clinical pathologist and Director of the Blood Transfusion Service 1929-1954. She was appointed Commander of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) - 1 January 1951, for her work as director of the Victoria Blood Transfusion Service.

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Lucy Meredith Bryce worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne 1922-28, 1934-46, and at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories 1939-44. She was also a clinical pathologist and Director of the Blood Transfusion Service 1929-54. Bryce is commemorated by the Lucy Bryce Hall at the Central Blood Bank, Melbourne.

  • 1918 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
  • 1922 Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
  • 1922 - 1928 Career position - Research post at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI)
  • 1925 - 1926 Career position - Research post at the Lister Institute in London
  • 1928 - 1934 Career position - Bacteriologist and Clinical Pathologist at the Melbourne Hospital
  • 1929 - 1954 Career position - Honorary Director of the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service
  • 1934 - 1940s Career position - Private practice as a Clinical Pathologist
  • 1934 - 1946 Career position - Research at WEHI (part-time)
  • 1939 - 1944 Career position - Research (part-time) at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL)
  • c. 1940 - c. 1945 Career position - Visiting Specialist with the rank of major at the 115th Australian General Hospital in Heidelberg, Victoria
  • 1951 Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
  • 1954 - 1960s Career position - Honorary Director of Pathology at the Queen Victoria Hospital
  • 1954 - 1966 Career position - Chairman of the Transfusion Committee of the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service

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Resources for Lucy M. Bryce

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Australian Women's Register

  1. Bryce, Lucy Meredith (1897-1968)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online 07 : Bryce, Lucy Meredith (1897-1968)
    Verso, M.L.
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070471b.htm
  2. Bryce, Lucy Meredith (1897 - 1968), Biographical EntryBright Sparcs : Bryce, Lucy Meredith (1897 - 1968), Biographical Entry
    [2002]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    Series: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000953b.htm
  3. Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
  4. 150 years, 150 stories : brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne
    Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter
    [2003]
    Published: Department of History, University of Melbourne
  5. Where are the Women in Australian science?
    Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    Series: http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html
  6. Private Hands (contact Australian Women's Archive Project): Lucy Meredith Bryce - Records (1897 - 1968)
    Records relating to the history she wrote of the transfusion service up to 1959, "An abiding gladness" (1965); family records.

Encyclopedia of Australian Science

  1. Bryce, Lucy Meredith (1897-1968), haematologistAustralian Dictionary of Biography Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 7 470-471 : Bryce, Lucy Meredith (1897-1968), haematologist
    Verso, M. L.
    [1979]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
  2. Who's Who in Australia 1944
    Alexander, John A.
    [1944]
    Published: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd
  3. Private hands (contact Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre): Lucy Meredith Bryce - Records (1897 - 1968)
    Records relating to the history she wrote of the transfusion service up to 1959, "An abiding gladness" (1965); family records.

Resources by Lucy M. Bryce (1)

  1. An abiding gladness : the background of contemporary blood transfusion and its story during the years 1929-1959 in the Victorian division of the Australian Red Cross Society / by Lucy M. Bryce
    Bryce, Lucy M. (Lucy Meredith), 1897-1968
    [ Book : 1965 ]
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  1. Old Zoology building, University of Melbourne, 1916
    Bryce, Lucy
    [ Art work : 1916 ]
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    At Baillieu Library
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