Background
Mckenzie, Robert Tait was born on May 26, 1867 in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. Son of Review William and Catherine (Shiells) M.
Mckenzie, Robert Tait was born on May 26, 1867 in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. Son of Review William and Catherine (Shiells) M.
Educated Ottawa Collegiate Institute. Bachelor of Arts, McGill, 1889, Doctor of Medicine 1892, Doctor of Laws, 1921. Diploma Harvard Summer School Physical Education, 1891.
Master of Physical Education, Springfield (Massachusetts) Training College, 1913.
House physical, Montreal General Hospital, 1893. Surgeon Beaver Lincolnshire steamer Liverpool to Montreal, 1893. House physical to governor-general Canada, 1895.
Demonstrator, then lecturer anatomy, 1895-1904, medical director physical training, 1896-1904, McGill University.
Lecturer artistic anatomy, Montreal Art Association, 1901, Harvard Summer School, 1901, Olympic lecture course, Saint Louis, 1904. Professor and director department physical education, University of Pennsylvania, 1904-1930, research professor of physical education, since 1931.
Temporary major Royal Army Medical Corps, 1915, 16. Inspector physical training Kitchener’s armies, medical officer in charge Heaton Park Command Depot, 1916.
Has exhibited at Salon, Royal Academy and elsewhere.
Sculptor of the Sprinter, Athlete, Competitor and heroic statues of the Youthful Franklin and Review George Whitefield on the campus of University of Pennsylvania. Victory Memorial, Cambridge, England. Scottish American War Memorial, Edinburgh, 1927.
General Wolfe Statue, Greenwich, 1930.
Alma Mater, Girard College, Philadelphia, 1932. Delano Nurses Memorial, Washington, District of Columbia, 1933.
War memorials in Parliament Building, Ottawa. Etc. Author: Exercise in Education and Medicine.
Treatment of Convalescent Soldiers by Physical Means.
Reclaiming the Maimed. Home: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Ethel O’Neil, of Hamilton, Ontario, August 18, 1907.