Charlie MacKay explained
Charles Vincent MacKay FRACP (3 May 1880 – 26 April 1953) was a noted Australian medical specialist and an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2] [3]
Family
The son of Donald MacKay (1849–1934),[4] and Eleanor (a.k.a. "Helen") MacKay (1855–1930), née Vincent,[5] [6] Charles Vincent MacKay was born at Woods Point, Victoria on 3 May 1880.[7]
He married Rose Nita née Collins, née Mackay (1890–1973) in Marylebone, London, England in 1927.
Football
Charles MacKay played VFL football while studying Medicine at Trinity College.[8]
Medicine
He graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne at the end of 1905.[9]
Following his graduation, MacKay worked in several Melbourne hospitals, completing a Doctorate of Medicine by Thesis in 1910,[10] and taking the role of medical superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital in 1911.[11]
Military service
At the outbreak of World War I, MacKay joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in England,[12] where he was twice Mentioned in Despatches. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he took command of the No 80 General Hospital in Salonika during the latter stages of the war.[13]
Post-war Medicine
MacKay remained in England for several years following the war;[14] [15] and, after returning to Australia, he served as medical assistant to the director of the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra, in 1936, and as Acting Director in 1937.[16]
MacKay was appointed as director of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria in 1939.[17]
During World War II he was wartime executive medical officer of the Medical Equipment Control Committee, and after the war he joined the Cancer Institute as a secretary and later served as its executive medical officer.[18]
Death
He died at his residence on 26 April 1953.[19]
External links
Notes and References
- News: Family Notices . The Argus . 10,570 . Victoria, Australia . 5 May 1880 . 1.
- Web site: MacKay, Charles Vincent (1880–1953) . Encyclopedia of Australian Science.
- Book: Holmesby, Russell. The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 . Main. Jim . 2014 . 10th . 978-1-921496-32-5 . BAS Publishing . Seaford, Victoria . 537.
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10970405 Deaths: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Monday, 23 July 1934), p.1.
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198219575 Marriages: Mackay (sic)—Vincent, The Mount Alexander Mail, (Monday, 16 April 1877), p.2.
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4078533 Deaths: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Tuesday, 1 April, 1930), p.1.
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5981889 Births: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Wednesday, 5 May 1880), p.1
- News: SOUTH MELBOURNE (8.10) BEAT MELBOURNE (3.8). . The Age . 15,704 . Victoria, Australia . 10 July 1905 . 8.
- News: UNIVERSITY COUNCIL. . The Age . 15,831 . Victoria, Australia . 5 December 1905 . 24 February 2019 . 5 . National Library of Australia.
- News: UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. . The Herald . 10,819 . Victoria, Australia . 2 July 1910 . 8.
- News: WOMAN'S DEATH. . Weekly Times . 2,188 . Victoria, Australia . 15 July 1911 . 33.
- News: PERSONAL. . The Argus . 21,372 . Victoria, Australia . 25 January 1915 . 8.
- News: PERSONAL. . Warrnambool Standard . 12,201 . Victoria, Australia . 31 December 1918 . 3.
- News: AUSTRALIANS ABROAD . The Australasian . CXXIV . 4,136 . Victoria, Australia . 14 April 1928 . 18.
- News: PERSONAL . The Argus . 27,929 . Victoria, Australia . 24 February 1936 . 8.
- News: DR. C. V. MACKAY . The Canberra Times . 13 . 3,541 . Australian Capital Territory, Australia . 26 January 1939 . 3.
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2469931 Dr. C.V. MacKay: Executive Post in Anti-Cancer Campaign: Leaving Canberra This Week, The Canberra Times, (Thursday, 26 January 1939), p.3.
- News: OBITUARIES . The Age . 30,575 . Victoria, Australia . 29 April 1953 . 2.
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205716030 Deaths; MacKay, The Age, Wednesday, 29 April 1953), p.13.
