Halford, George Britton ♂

Education

M.D. 6.5.1854 by examination.

Birth/childhood

Born 26.11.1824 at Petworth, Sussex 2nd son of James Halford, merchant, Haverstock Hall near London and Nancy Gadd.

Career

Studied St George’s hospital.

M.R.C.S.Eng. 1852. L.S.A. 1854. M.R.C.P.L. 1859. [Doctor]

Lecturer in Anatomy, Grosvenor Place School of Medicine, London 1857-1862. Professor of Physiology, University of Melbourne 1862-1900 (retired). [University lecturer, university professor]

Founder of first medical school in Australia.

Publications

Thoughts, observations, and experiments on the action of snake venom on the blood. (Melbourne: Stillwell & Co., 1894)

Not like man, bimanous and biped, nor yet quadrumanous, but cheiropodous. (Melbourne: Wilson & Mackinnon, 1863)

Lectures on the heart, delivered at the Melbourne University, Victoria, during the Session of 1864. (Reprinted from the 'Australian Medical Journal.') ([Melbourne]: Wilson & Mackinnon, 1864)

Death

Died 27.5.1910 at Inverloch, Victoria [Australia] aged 86.

Sources

• Med. Jnl. of Australia 19.1.1929
• Aust. Encyclopaedia
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• George Britton Halford in Wikipedia.