Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret (1867-1939)

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Doctor and Founder; feminist; general practitioner; medical administrator; public servant; Physician
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HALLEY, IDA GERTRUDE MARGARET (1867-1939), medical officer and feminist, was born on 1 August 1867 at Ballarat West, Victoria, daughter of Rev. Jacob John Halley and his wife Margaret, née Fletcher. Educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, she was among the first women medical students at the University of Melbourne (M.B., B.S., 1896). After graduation she practised with Dr Kent Hughes of Melbourne and was active as a founder and treasurer of the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women. She became honorary surgeon there and a specialist in eye and ear work, a field she had researched in London and Shanghai, China.

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Gertrude Halley was a founder and treasurer of the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women. An eye and ear specialist, she was an honorary surgeon at the hospital. In 1913 she established the medical branch of the Education Department in South Australia.

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Ida Gertrude M. Halley became a medical inspector of schools in Tasmania (1906) and from 1910 held a similar position in Sydney where she lectured on hygiene at the Teachers' College. In 1913 she established the medical branch of the Education Department in South Australia.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Australian Women's Register

  1. Children and their law-makers : a social-historical survey of the growth and development from 1836 to 1950 of South Australian laws relating to children
    Davey, Constance M.
    [1956]
    Published: Griffin Press
  2. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press
  3. Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret (1867-1939)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret (1867-1939)
    Kwan, Elizabeth
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090162b.htm

Encyclopedia of Australian Science

  1. 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology
    Radi, H.
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press Inc
  2. Gertrude Halley (1867-1939) medical officer200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology Heather Radi : Gertrude Halley (1867-1939) medical officer
    Kwan, Elizabeth
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press Inc
  3. Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret (1867-1939)Australian Dictionary of Biography Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 9 170-171 : Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret (1867-1939)
    Kwan, Elizabeth
    [1983]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
  4. State Records of South Australia: Ida Gertrude Margaret Halley - Records (1913 - 1939)
    Records of the National Council of Women in South Australia, of the League of Women Voters, and of the League of Loyal Women c1913-39.

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