Macknight, Ella Annie Noble (1904-1997)

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Aviator, Golfer, Hockey Player, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
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Ella Macknight was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who worked at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1969 for services to medicine. She was also a talented hockey player, winning University Blues and playing in the Victorian team when she was at the University of Melbourne.

Ella Macknight, daughter of Conway Montgomery Macknight and Eliza Jane Simpson, was educated at home by governesses and later attended Toorak College. She gained her MB BS in 1928 from the University of Melbourne. After qualifying as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, (MD, Melb.1931, DGO Melb 1936), she was associated with the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1935-1977. Her appointments included honorary obstetrician and gynaecologist from 1935-1964; vice-president of the Committee of Management for 1963-1971 and president from 1971-1977. She was president of the Council of the Royal College of Gynaecologists from 1970-1972 and served as chairmen of the Blood Transfusion Committee, Victorian Division of the Red Cross Society from 1964-1970 and a member of the Executive of the Victorian Division during the same period.

Ella Macknight had a well developed adventurous streak. In 1929, she was persuaded by her cousin to learn how to fly. She got her pilot's ticket and, in 1930, was one of six women pilots in Victoria who provided an escort for Amy Johnson from Laverton to Moonee Valley, where they landed on the race track.

Ella Macknight was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine on 1 January 1969.

She died on 1 April 1997 in Malvern at the age of 92.

  • 1951 Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG)
  • 1958 Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG)
  • 1972 Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Monash University, Victoria
  • 1973 Fellowship in Australia in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (FAGO)
  • 1976 Fellow of the Australian Medical Association (FAMA)
  • 1978 Fellow of the Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

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  1. The Ties that Bind: A History of Sport at the University of Melbourne
    Senyard, June
    [2004]
    Published: Walla Walla Press
  2. Macknight, Dame Ella Annie Noble, DBEWho's who in Australia 1996 1046 : Macknight, Dame Ella Annie Noble, DBE
    [1996]
    Published: Information Australia Group Pty Ltd
  3. She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2007]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Who's who of Australian women
    Lofthouse, Andrea
    [1982]
    Published: Methuen Australia
  7. National Library of Australia, Reading Room: Macknight, Ella, Dame, 1904-1997
    Biographical cuttings on Dame Ella Macknight, former gynaecologist
    Cuttings Files BIOG

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