James Barrett (academic)

Sir James William Barrett, KBE, CB, CMG (27 February 1862[1] – 6 April 1945) was an Australian ophthalmologist and academic administrator.

Sir James Barrett
James Barrett c. 1914
Born	(1862-02-27)27 February 1862 South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	6 April 1945(1945-04-06) (aged 83)

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)

References

1. "Biography – Sir James William Barrett – Australian Dictionary of Biography". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 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. Murray-Smith, S. Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 29 November 2017 – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
4. "Home". University of Melbourne Archives. 31 October 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
5. "About the TCPA". Town and Country Planning Association. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
6. Rubinstein, Hilary L., 'Sir James Barrett (1862–1945): Australian philosemite', Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 12:1, Nov 1993, pp.91–100.

Academic offices
Preceded by Sir John Monash	Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne 1931–1934	Succeeded by Sir Raymond Priestley
Preceded by Sir John MacFarland	Chancellor of the University of Melbourne 1935–1939	Succeeded by Sir John Greig Latham[1]

1. "University Secretar's Department : University Calendar-Former Office-Bearers : The University of Melbourne". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2015.