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Stanton, Byron Lionel (1891 - 1963)

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Physician and Pharmacist
Born: 7 July 1891  Palmerston North, New Zealand.  Died: 20 April 1963  Kew, Victoria, Australia.
Byron Lionel Stanton initially qualified as a pharmacist, but then took up medical studies. After graduating he worked at the Melbourne and Children’s hospitals before spending a year in with the Australian Imperial force. Upon returning to Melbourne he set up a private medicine practice which he ran for many years. He also lectured to both the medicine and pharmacy courses at the University of Melbourne and the College of Pharmacy. In fact at one point he was lecturer of Pharmacy and Materia Medica to his fellow medical students. Stanton was Head of the Department of Materia Medica at the College of Pharmacy from 1927 to 1963.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1913Completed Pharmacy training at the College of Pharmacy in Melbourne
1916 - 1917Staff Sergeant with the Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force
1919 - 1963Lecturer in Pharmacy and Materia Medica at the University of Melbourne
1921Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
1921 - 1922Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital
1925Assistant Pathologist at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
1926 - Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London
1926Studies in England
1927 - Private practice in Melbourne
1927 - 1963Head of the Department of Materia Medica at the College of Pharmacy
1930Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria
1943 - Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

 

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