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Wedgwood, Camilla Hildegarde (1901 - 1955)MA, FRAI |
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| Born: 25 March 1901 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Died: 17 May 1955 St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia. | |||
Camilla Wedgwood, the fifth of seven children of Josiah and Ethel (née Bowen) Wedgwood, came to Australia in 1928 to lecture in anthropology at the University of Sydney. She then lectured at the University of Capetown, South Africa and at the London School of Economics and Political Science before being granted a fellowship to study the lives of women and children on Manam Island, New Guinea by the Australian National Research Council. Later Wedgwood became principal of Women’s College at the University of Sydney and held this position until her appointment in the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, at the express wish of General Sir Thomas Blamey. She developed policies for postwar educational resconstruction in Papua New Guinea. Following her discharge Wedgwood returned to lecturing. A member of the Australian Student Christian Movement she was also involved with the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children, the Anthropological Society of New South Wales, the Australian Federation of University Women and the Australian Institute of International Affairs. |
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| Sources used to compile this entry: Who's Who in Australia, 1950 , pps 742-743, Howard, Ann (1990) You'll be sorry! and Australian Dictionary of Biography, pps 515-517. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 16 October 2008 http://womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0628b.htm |