• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE3696

Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret

  • Dr
(1867 – 1939)
  • Born 1 August 1867, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  • Died 1 October 1939, Maylands, South Australia
  • Occupation Doctor, Founder

Summary

Gertrude Halley was a founder and treasurer of the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women. An eye and ear specialist, she was an honorary surgeon at the hospital. In 1913 she established the medical branch of the Education Department in South Australia.

Published resources

  • Resource Section
  • Edited Book
    • 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988
  • Book
    • Children and their law-makers : a social-historical survey of the growth and development from 1836 to 1950 of South Australian laws relating to children, Davey, Constance M., 1956
  • Resource

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    • Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne (1875 - )