Portrait of Professor Harry Brookes Allen (1854-1926) at the time of his appointment as professor
Maker
Johnstone, O'Shannessy and Co Limited (estab. 1865, closed 1905)
Date
Circa 1882
Description
Black and white portrait photo printed on mount. Photographer's name and address printed on mount below image and on verso: Johnston, O'shannessy & Co. 3 Bourke St. East. Next the Post Office Melbourne.
Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co. was a leading photographic studio located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was active from 1865 to 1905.
Harry Brookes Allen (1854–1926) became the first Australian-born professor at the University of Melbourne in 1882, when a reform of the Medical School split the foundation chair of anatomy, pathology and physiology into two, with Allen being appointed professor of anatomy and pathology, and his teacher, the foundation professor George Britton Halford (1824-1910) retaining his first love, physiology. As well as serving as dean for extensive periods, Allen took on numerous positions as a medical administrator and government advisor, perhaps most importantly playing a major part in the introduction of Melbourne’s extensive sewerage system in the late nineteenth century.
Dr Ross L Jones
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