Dalyell, Elsie Jean (1881-1948)

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Pathologist; microbiologist; public servant; schoolteacher; Pathologist and Microbiologist
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DALYELL, ELSIE JEAN (1881-1948), pathologist, was born on 13 December 1881 at Newtown, Sydney, second daughter of James Melville Dalyell, mining engineer, and his wife Jean, née McGregor. Educated at Sydney Girls' High School under Lucy Garvin, she joined the Department of Public Instruction as a pupil-teacher in 1897. Sponsored by the department she completed first year arts and science at the University of Sydney. She suffered a hysterectomy in 1905, and next year resigned as a teacher and transferred to second-year medicine. Entering the Women's College in 1909, she graduated M.B. with first-class honours that year and Ch.M. in 1910. With Mary Burfitt, she followed Jessie Aspinall as a pioneer female resident medical officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. In 1911-12 Elsie Dalyell was the first woman on the full-time medical school staff as demonstrator in pathology, and in December 1912 the first Australian woman elected to a Beit fellowship, which she took up at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London.

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Elsie Dalyell was born on 13 December 1881, the second daughter of James Melville and Jean (née McGregor) Dalyell. After being educated at Sydney Girl's High School, in 1897 she became a pupil-teacher with the Department of Public Instruction. In 1904, sponsored by the department, Elsie Dalyell commenced an arts and science degree at the University of Sydney. She resigned as a teacher in 1905 and transferred to second year medicine. After graduating with first-class honours, Elsie Dalyell became a medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

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Elsie Jean Dalyell was the first female full-time demonstrator at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney 1911-12. She studied and worked in Europe 1912-23 and on return to Australia became a microbiologist with the Department of Public Health, Sydney 1924-46.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Australian Women's Register

  1. Elsie Dalyell200 Australian Women Radi, Heather 127-128 : Elsie Dalyell
    Mitchell, Ann M
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press Inc
  2. 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
  3. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press
  4. Dalyell, Elsie Jean (1881-1948)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : Dalyell, Elsie Jean (1881-1948)
    Mitchell, Ann M.
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080223b.htm

Encyclopedia of Australian Science

  1. 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology
    Radi, H.
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press Inc
  2. Dalyell, Elsie Jean (1881-1948)Australian Dictionary of Biography Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 8 201-202 : Dalyell, Elsie Jean (1881-1948)
    Mitchell, Ann M.
    [1981]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
  3. Elsie Dalyell (1881-1948) pathologist200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology Heather Radi : Elsie Dalyell (1881-1948) pathologist
    Mitchell, Ann M.
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press Inc
  4. University of Sydney, Archives: Elsie Jean Dalyell - Records (1911 - 1912)
    Information in University of Sydney official records and in the records of the Women's College c1910-20.
  5. State Records New South Wales, Sydney Reading Room: Elsie Jean Dalyell - Records (1897 - 1905)
    Correspondence relating to her period with the NSW Department of Public Instruction 1897-1905 especially records concerning Kogarah Public High School.

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    Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954) Thursday 12 February 1931 p 5 Article
    ... LOST REASON? Woman Artist's Death. Inhaled Fumes from Car Engine. . SYDNEY, Wednesday. - Lindsay Jean Hazelton (26), artist and lecturer in art at the Sydney University, versity,, who was found dead last evening, in a motor car at tho . homo pf her aunt, Dr. Elsie . .Dályell, 'of Seryman street, ... 197 words
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