Background
RANK, Benjamin was born on January 14, 1911 in Heidelberg, Victoria. Son of Wreghitt Rank and Bessie Rank (nee Smith).
RANK, Benjamin was born on January 14, 1911 in Heidelberg, Victoria. Son of Wreghitt Rank and Bessie Rank (nee Smith).
Melbourne University.
Chairman Board of Postgraduate Education 1968-1975. Adviser to Board of Manager 1971-1975. Consulting Plastic Surgeon to Department, of Repatriation, also to Queen Victoria Hospital and Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital.
Chief Reparative Surgeon, Peter MacCallum Clinic 1964-1979.
Chairman Committee of Manager, Victorian Plastic Surgery Unit, Preston and Northcote Community Hospital 1966-1986. Visiting Professor Harvard University 1976.
President British Association of Plastic Surgeons 1965. President Royal Australasian College, of Surgeons 1966-1968, Syme Orator 1976, Stawell Orator 1977.
President Saint John"s Ambulance Council, Victoria 1983-1988, Chairman 1978-1983.
Chairman Australian College, of Speech Therapy, Honorary Fellow 1965. Honorary Fellow, Royal College, of Surgeons of Canada 1969, of Edinburgh 1973. Honorary Doctor of Science (Punjabi University) 1970.
Knight of the Order of Street John of Jerusalem 1989.
Board of Manager 82, Medical Adviser to Board of Manager 1971-1975. Motor Accident Board, Victoria 1972-1982.
Married Barbara Lyle Facy in 1938.