Charles Kellaway

Charles Halliley Kellaway (January 16 1889 - December 13 1952) was an Australian medical scientist and science administrator.

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Kellaway was born at the parsonage attached to St James's Old Cathedral, Melbourne. He was educated at home until he was 11, he then attended Caulfield Grammar School for a year, and after receiving a scholarship went on to complete his high school education at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. Following school he went to the University of Melbourne in 1907 to study medicine, he completed his M.B. and B.S. in 1911, his M.D. in 1913, and his M.S. in 1915.

When he had completed his studies he held a teaching position at the University of Adelaide, and then went to Egypt in 1915 where he served in the Australian Army Medical Corps. He was awarded a Military Cross for his actions in France, and in 1918 was promoted to Major. He spent the next 4 years involved in physiological research in London, working on the problems of anoxia with Henry Dale. Kellaway moved back to Melbourne in 1922 to become the second director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

In 1944 he moved to London to become director of scientific policy for the Wellcome Foundation Ltd.

References

• Macfarlane Burnet, Kellaway, Charles Halliley (1889 - 1952), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 546-547