Charlie MacKay
| Charlie MacKay | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Charles Vincent MacKay | ||
| Born |
3 May 1880[1] Woods Point, Victoria | ||
| Died |
26 April 1953 (aged 72) South Yarra, Victoria | ||
| Original team | Trinity College | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1905–06 | Melbourne | 12 (7) | |
|
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1911. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Charles Vincent MacKay (3 May 1880 – 26 April 1953) was a noted Australian medical specialist and an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2][3]
Family
[edit]The son of Donald MacKay (1849–1934),[4] and Eleanor (a.k.a. "Helen") MacKay (1855–1930), née Vincent,[5][6] Charles Vincent MacKay was born at Woods Point, Victoria on 3 May 1880.[7]
He married Rose Nita née Collins, née Mackay (1890–1973) in Marylebone, London, England in 1927.
Football
[edit]Charles MacKay played VFL football while studying medicine at Trinity College.[8]
Medicine
[edit]He graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne at the end of 1905.[9]
Following his graduation, MacKay worked in several Melbourne hospitals, completing a Doctorate of Medicine by Thesis in 1910,[10] and taking on the role of medical superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital in 1911.[11]
Military service
[edit]At the outbreak of World War I, MacKay joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in England,[12] where he was twice Mentioned in Despatches. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he took command of the No 80 General Hospital in Salonika during the latter stages of the war.[13]
Post-war Medicine
[edit]MacKay remained in England for several years following the war;[14][15] and, after returning to Australia, he served as medical assistant to the director of the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra, in 1936, and as acting director in 1937.[16]
MacKay was appointed as director of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria in 1939.[17]
During World War II, he was wartime executive medical officer of the Medical Equipment Control Committee, and after the war, he joined the Cancer Institute as a secretary and later served as its executive medical officer.[18]
Death
[edit]He died at his residence on 26 April 1953.[19]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 10, 570. Victoria, Australia. 5 May 1880. p. 1.
- ↑ "MacKay, Charles Vincent (1880–1953)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science.
- ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 537. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
- ↑ Deaths: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Monday, 23 July 1934), p.1.
- ↑ Marriages: Mackay (sic)—Vincent, The Mount Alexander Mail, (Monday, 16 April 1877), p.2.
- ↑ Deaths: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Tuesday, 1 April, 1930), p.1.
- ↑ Births: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Wednesday, 5 May 1880), p.1; Births: Mackay (sic), The Australasian, (Saturday, 8 May 1880), p.26.
- ↑ "SOUTH MELBOURNE (8.10) BEAT MELBOURNE (3.8)". The Age. No. 15, 704. Victoria, Australia. 10 July 1905. p. 8.
- ↑ "UNIVERSITY COUNCIL". The Age. No. 15, 831. Victoria, Australia. 5 December 1905. p. 5. Retrieved 24 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE". The Herald. No. 10, 819. Victoria, Australia. 2 July 1910. p. 8.
- ↑ "WOMAN'S DEATH". Weekly Times. No. 2, 188. Victoria, Australia. 15 July 1911. p. 33.
- ↑ "PERSONAL". The Argus. No. 21, 372. Victoria, Australia. 25 January 1915. p. 8.
- ↑ "PERSONAL". Warrnambool Standard. No. 12, 201. Victoria, Australia. 31 December 1918. p. 3.
- ↑ "AUSTRALIANS ABROAD". The Australasian. Vol. CXXIV, no. 4, 136. Victoria, Australia. 14 April 1928. p. 18.
- ↑ "PERSONAL". The Argus. No. 27, 929. Victoria, Australia. 24 February 1936. p. 8.
- ↑ "DR. C. V. MACKAY". The Canberra Times. Vol. 13, no. 3, 541. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26 January 1939. p. 3.
- ↑ Dr. C.V. MacKay: Executive Post in Anti-Cancer Campaign: Leaving Canberra This Week, The Canberra Times, (Thursday, 26 January 1939), p.3.
- ↑ "OBITUARIES". The Age. No. 30, 575. Victoria, Australia. 29 April 1953. p. 2.
- ↑ Deaths; MacKay, The Age, Wednesday, 29 April 1953), p.13.
External links
[edit]- Charlie MacKay's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Charlie MacKay at AustralianFootball.com
- Charlie MacKay on Demonwiki
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