Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - MedicineHistoryBasil Kilvington graduated from the University of Melbourne, M.B., B.S. in 1898 at the age of twenty-one, and Surgery (1900), M.D. in 1901 and M.S. in 1902. A resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital in 1899, he then became a tutor at Trinity College and carried out teaching and research work at the University. In 1908 Kilvington obtained the Syme Research Prize and was appointed demonstrator, part-time lecturer in Anatomy and later Stewart Lecturer in Surgery. He was also past president of Melbourne Rotary Club, president of the British Medical Association, Victorian Branch, in 1921, and a Foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Kilvington retired in 1935 and died in 1947.
Kilvington, Basil (6 August 1877-1947). University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 17/12/2025, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/62957
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