Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872-1960)

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Medical practitioner; benefactor; defence forces personnel (British); general practitioner; Physician
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BENNETT, AGNES ELIZABETH LLOYD (1872-1960), medical practitioner, was born on 24 June 1872 at Neutral Bay, Sydney, sixth child of W. C. Bennett, and his first wife Agnes Amelia, née Hays. Educated in England at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Dulwich Girls' High School until her mother's death in 1881, she attended Abbotsleigh girls' school in Sydney from July 1885, then the Girls' High School, Sydney, in 1888-89. She won a scholarship in 1890 and studied science at the University of Sydney (B.Sc., 1894); she was secretary of and a night-school teacher for the Women's Association (later University Women's Settlement).

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Agnes Bennett practised in Wellington, New Zealand from 1905 and was Chief Medical Officer at St Helens Maternity Hospital 1908-36.

Born Sydney, 24 June 1872. Died Wellington, New Zealand, 27 November 1960. OBE 1948. Educated University of Sydney (BSc 1894) and College of Medicine for Women, University of Edinburgh (MB, ChM 1899, MD 1911). Teacher and governess; private practice, Sydney 1901-04; junior medical officer, Hospital for the Insane, Callan Park 1904-05; private practice, Wellington, New Zealand from 1905; chief medical officer, St Helen's maternity hospital 1908-36; honorary physician, children's ward, Wellington Hospital from 1910; first female commissioned officer, British Army 1915; in charge of a unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals on the Serbian front 1916-17; medical officer, Burketown, North Queensland 1938-39; English hospitals 1940-42; lectured to the women's services in New Zealand on venereal disease and birth control from 1942. First president, Wellington branch, International Federation of University Women 1923.

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Agnes Elizabeth L. Bennett practised in Wellington, New Zealand from 1905 and was Chief Medical Officer at St. Helens Maternity Hospital 1908-36.

  • 1894 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
  • 1899 Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM) completed at the College of Medicine for Women, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 1901 - 1904 Career position - Private practice in Sydney
  • 1904 - 1905 Career position - Junior Medical Officer at the Hospital for the Insane in Callan Park
  • 1905 - ? Career position - Private practice in Wellington, New Zealand
  • 1908 - 1936 Career position - Chief Medical Officer at St Helen's Maternity Hospital
  • 1910 - ? Career position - Honorary Physician in the children's ward at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand
  • 1911 Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the College of Medicine for Women, University of Edinburgh
  • 1915 Career position - First female commissioned Officer in the British Army
  • 1916 - 1917 Career position - In charge of a unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals on the Serbian front
  • 1923 Career position - First President of the Wellington branch of the International Federation of University Women
  • 1938 - 1939 Career position - Medical Officer in Burketown, North Queensland
  • 1940 - 1942 Career position - English hospitals
  • 1942 - c. 1945 Career position - Lectured to the women's services in New Zealand on venereal disease and birth control
  • 1948 Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

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  1. Christison of Lammermoor
    Bennett, M. M. (Mary Montgomerie)
    [1927]
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  2. Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872 - 1960), Biographical EntryBright Sparcs : Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872 - 1960), Biographical Entry
    [2002]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    Series: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000969b.htm
  3. The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia
    De Vries, Susanna
    [2003]
    Published: HarperCollins
  4. Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872-1960)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online 07 : Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872-1960)
    Curthoys, Ann
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130193b.htm
  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. Women on the warpath : feminist of the first wave
    Davidson, Dianne
    [1997]
    Published: University of Western Australia Press
  7. Australian War Memorial Research Centre: Vukovic Dr (1916)
    "Allied Medical Missions in Serbia during the First World War : Australian Women at the Front of Salonica in 1916". In part examines the role of Australian women doctors (Agnes Bennett and Lilian Cooper and Mary Garis) and nurses in the Scottish Medical Missions (Scottish Women's Hospitals) in Serbia during the 1914-1918 war. This was a short paper delivered to the Serbian Academy of Science (Historical Section) c. 1987.
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