Henry Fry (anthropologist)
Henry Kenneth Fry , and Medical Officer for the City of Adelaide.
Education
He attended University of Adelaide and received his BSc 1905, MBBS 1908, MD 1934.[2][3] He was a 1909
Career
In 1913, Fry succeeded
World War I
At the outbreak of
Post-war career
He returned to Australia in 1918, where he married Dorothy Editha Deeley with
In 1920 Fry established a private practice in
In 1926 Fry was a founder member of the Board for Anthropological Research, along with Draper Campbell,[5] (Sir) John Cleland,[6] Frederic Wood Jones,[7] Robert Henry Pulleine,[8] and Archibald Watson.[9] His anthropological work took him on numerous medical, ethnological, and anthropological research expeditions to Aboriginal lands in Central Australia between 1929 and 1937. Beginning in 1930 he published over twenty scientific papers on Aboriginal kinship, psychology and mythology.
Moving to Crafers in 1937, he was appoint public health officer for the City of Adelaide, a position he occupied part-time.[1] In 1939, as well as acting as President of the Royal Society of South Australia, he was a founding fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Henry Fry died on 22 July 1959 in Stirling.[1][2]
Documents
South Australian Museum Archives contain:[10]
- Manuscript and typescript papers on kinship, education and other aspects of Aboriginal cultures and on the peoples of Melville and Bathurst Islands;
- notebooks and logs kept on various expeditions with notebooks for psychological tests;
- correspondence 1933-57 and with Ursula McConnel on the social organisation of Aboriginal cultures 1950–52;
- bibliography of papers on anthropology by South Australian research workers 1927–38;
- transcription from the original of 'A Short History of New Australia' by H.K. Fry;
- miscellaneous paintings, extracts, maps and
- a notebook dated 1875 kept by Dr. Lumbers.
See also
- Jones, Philip, 'Fry, Henry Kenneth (1896–1959), Anthropologist and Medical Practitioner', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 230–231.[11]
- The H.K. Fry Memorial Prize for Psychological Medicine
- 1908 photo of Fry on graduation with MBBS (Fry is in the centre, seated). Information about the photo.
- 1915 photo of Fry at Gallipoli (Australian War Memorial archives). Information about the circumstances of the photo (ANZACDay.org.au)
References
- ^ a b c d "Fry, Henry Kenneth - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry". Asap.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140258b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography
- ^ The University of Adelaide | Leaders in their fields Archived 2009-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/scholarships/postgrad/pdf/sarhodesscholars.pdf Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine List of South Australian Rhodes Scholars
- ^ Brown, Tasman. Draper Campbell. Adb.online.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ John Cleland Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Monica MacCallum. "Frederic Wood Jones". Adb.online.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ Hicks, Neville. Robert Pulleine. Adb.online.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ Elmslie, Ronald. Archibald Watson. Adb.online.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Fry, Henry Kenneth - Bright Sparcs Archival and Heritage Sources". Asap.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Fry, Henry Kenneth - Bright Sparcs Published Sources". Asap.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
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