James Barrett (academic) explained

Sir James Barrett
Birth Date:	27 February 1862
Birth Place:	South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sir James William Barrett, (27 February 1862 – 6 April 1945) was an Australian ophthalmologist and academic administrator.

Born in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,^[1] he was educated at the University of Melbourne and King's College London.^[2] He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne from 1931 to 1934, and then as Chancellor from 1935 to 1939.^[3] He was President of the British Medical Association from 1935 to 1936,^[4] and the inaugural president of the Victorian Town Planning and Parks Association, now the Town and Country Planning Association.^[5] He was a notable supporter of Jewish refugee migration to Australia by persons fleeing Nazism.^[6]

Bibliography

• The Australian medical corps in Egypt (1918)
• The twin ideals: An educated Commonwealth (1918)
• The war work of the Y.M.C.A. In Egypt (1919)
• A vision of the possible (1919)
• The diary of an Australian soldier (1921)
• Save Australia (1925)

Further reading

• Book: Roe, Michael. Michael Roe (historian)

. Michael Roe (historian). Nine Australian Progressives: Vitalism in Bourgeois Social Thought 1890–1960. 0702219746. University of Queensland Press. James William Barrett: 1862–1945. 57-88. 1984.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biography – Sir James William Barrett – Australian Dictionary of Biography . Australian Dictionary of Biography . 9 November 2015.
2. ‘BARRETT, Lt-Col Sir James William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007
3. Book: Murray-Smith, S.. Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. 29 November 2017. Australian Dictionary of Biography.
4. Web site: Home. 31 October 2017. University of Melbourne Archives. 29 November 2017.
5. Web site: About the TCPA. Town and Country Planning Association. 2014-10-06.
6. [Rubinstein, Hilary L.]