Background
WINDEYER, Brian was born on February 7, 1904 in Sydney, Australia. Son of Richard Windeyer, Knights of Columbus and Mabel Fuller Windeyer.
WINDEYER, Brian was born on February 7, 1904 in Sydney, Australia. Son of Richard Windeyer, Knights of Columbus and Mabel Fuller Windeyer.
He attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School and then read for a degree in medicine at the University of Sydney obtaining Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1927.
He was the youngest of seven children of Mabel Fuller Robinson (1864–1956), an orphan emigrant from London to Australia at the age of 18. After time at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, he worked at the Fondation Curie in Paris from 1929-1930. He obtained a Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology 1933 at Cambridge University.
He also obtained Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh University.
In 1931 he became radium officer at the Middlesex Hospital and officer in charge of the Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy formed in 1936. This was at a time when radium and x-ray treatment were carried out by different clinical teams.
In World World War II he was director in the emergency medical service of Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood, Middlesex. In 1942 he became the first professor of therapeutic radiology at the Middlesex.
He helped found and became President of the Faculty of Radiologists (1949-1952).
Clinical Research Board 1954-1962. Medical Research Council 1958-1962, 1968-1972. Royal Commission, on Medical Education.
Of Court 1963-1978, Junior.
Warden 1970-1971, Senior Warden 1971-1972, Master 1972-1973.
Married 1st Joyce Ziele Russell in 1928, one son one daughter. Married 2nd Elspeth Anne Bowrey in 1948, one son two daughter.