Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsVeterinariansHistoryWilliam Tyson Kendall, founder and Principal of the Melbourne Veterinary College, was born in the English Lake District in 1851, and after qualifying as a veterinary surgeon in London returned there to practise. In 1880 he arrived in Melbourne, where he was instrumental in the formation of a Veterinary Association that year. In 1887, as secretary of the Veterinary Association, he drafted the Veterinary Surgeons' Bill which was passed by the Victorian Parliament after slight modification. Kendall opened the Melbourne Veterinary College in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy in 1888. In 1908-1909, when the Veterinary School opened at the University of Melbourne, he transferred students from his College and joined the staff of the new School. He lectured in subjects including Veterinary Medicine, Obstetrics and Therapeutics and gave clinical instruction, remaining at the University until his retirement in c.1918. Kendall was married twice. With his first wife he had a family of five surviving sons, including Ernest Arthur Kendall, and one daughter. He died on 11 August 1936.
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