Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899-1968)

Also known as
Connor, Jean (1899-1968)
Macnamara, Annie Jean, (Dame) (1899-1968)
Field of activity
Medical scientist; agrarian reformer; medical scientist; orthopaedist
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-743084

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MACNAMARA, Dame ANNIE JEAN (1899-1968), medical scientist, was born on 1 April 1899 at Beechworth, Victoria, second daughter of Victorian-born parents John Macnamara, clerk of courts, and his wife Annie, née Fraser. She was brought up in her mother's Presbyterian faith, but it was probably from her Catholic father, impetuous and forthright, that she inherited her determined spirit.

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Jean Macnamara, born in 1899 at Beechworth, Victoria, and a graduate of the University of Melbourne, was a physician at the Children's Hospital Melbourne in 1922 and 1923, a consultant and medical officer to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria 1925-1931, and medical officer, Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children 1928-1951. During 1931-1933 she held the Rockefeller Foundation travelling scholarship, furthering her studies on poliomyelitis. While in America she learnt about the virus myxomatosis and it was largely due to her efforts that the Australian Government held field trials testing the virus as a means to eradicating Australia's rabbit problem. She was on the part-time staff of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research 1933-1937. As Mrs Annie Jean Connor (she married Dr Ivan Connor in 1934), she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to the welfare of children in 1935, and was known as Dame Jean Macnamara.

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Dame Annie Jean Macnamara (later Connor) was a physician at the Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1923, a consultant and medical officer to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria 1925-31, and the Medical Officer, Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children 1928-51.

  • 1922 Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
  • 1922 - 1923 Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital
  • 1923 - 1928 Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
  • 1925 - ? Career position - Entered private practice
  • 1925 Career position - Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the University of Melbourne
  • 1925 - 1931 Career position - Consultant in Infantile paralysis to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria
  • 1928 - ? Career position - Honorary Medical Officer in the Physiotherapy Department at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
  • 1928 - 1951 Career position - Honorary Medical Officer at the Yooralla Hospital for Crippled Children
  • 1930 - 1931 Career position - Honorary Advisor on polio to official authorities in New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania
  • 1931 - 1933 Career position - Travelled to England and North America on a Rockefeller Fellowship
  • 1933 - 1937 Career position - Worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (part-time)
  • 1935 Award - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
  • 1937 - 1942 Career position - Member of the Consultative Council for Polio
  • 1946 - 1947 Career position - Member of the Consultative Council for Polio
  • 1966 Career position - Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD (Hon)) received from the University of Melbourne

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Australian Women's Register

  1. Obituary - Annie Jean MacnamaraThe Medical Journal of Australia 5 September 472-476 : Obituary - Annie Jean Macnamara
    Upjohn, William
    [1970]
  2. Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899 - 1968), Biographical EntryBright Sparcs : Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899 - 1968), Biographical Entry
    [2002]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    Series: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P001288b.htm
  3. Dame Annie Jean Macnamara (1899-1968)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : Dame Annie Jean Macnamara (1899-1968)
    Smith, Ann G.
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100337b.htm
  4. No Standing Back: Dame Jean MacnamaraAustraliasian Science Summer : No Standing Back: Dame Jean Macnamara
    Sherratt, Tim
    [1993]
    Series: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_macna.htm
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Technology in Australia 1788-1988
    Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
    [2000]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    Series: http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/
  9. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press
  10. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Papers of Dame Jean Macnamara (1920 - 1968)
    A collection of correspondence, press cuttings, case histories, appointment books, sketches, articles, etc. relating to the life and career of Dr Jean Macnamara. There is a large amount of published material much of which consists of Dr Macnamara's own writings. There is also a considerable volume of material relating to her interest in the eradication of rabbits by the introduction into Australia of the virus disease, myxomatosis. She was largely responsible for persuading the Australian Government to hold field trials using myxomatosis. Other fields of interest represented in the collection include orthopaedics, research into polio, and animal diseases which have some relationship to human beings and to domestic animals. Also included are several folders of letters written by Dr Macnamara to her family while she was overseas on a Rockefeller Foundation travelling scholarship from 1931-1933.
    MS 2399

Encyclopedia of Australian Science

  1. Macnamara, Dame Annie Jean (1899-1968), Medical ScientistAustralian Dictionary of Biography Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 10 345-347 : Macnamara, Dame Annie Jean (1899-1968), Medical Scientist
    Smith, Ann G.
    [1986]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
  2. Jean Macnamara (1899-1968) medical scientist200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology Heather Radi : Jean Macnamara (1899-1968) medical scientist
    Smith, Ann G.
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press Inc
  3. The Dame: the life and times of Dame Jean Macnamara, medical pioneer
    Zwar, Desmond
    [1984]
    Published: Macmillan
  4. Lionel Bately Bull, 1889-1978Historical Records of Australian Science 5 4 90-110 : Lionel Bately Bull, 1889-1978
    French, E. L. and Stewart, D.F.
    [1983]
  5. Who's Who in Australia 1944
    Alexander, John A.
    [1944]
    Published: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd
  6. Technology in Australia 1788-1988
    Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
    [2000]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    Series: http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/
  7. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Annie Jean Macnamara - Records (1920 - 1968)
    A large collection of correspondence, press cuttings, case histories, appointment books, sketches, articles and other material 1920-68 [about 6 m, MS 2399].
    MS 2399

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