Background
IRVINE, Robin Orlando Hamilton was born on September 15, 1929 in Dunedin. Son of Claude Turner Irvine and Benita Florence Gertrude Irvine.
IRVINE, Robin Orlando Hamilton was born on September 15, 1929 in Dunedin. Son of Claude Turner Irvine and Benita Florence Gertrude Irvine.
Wanganui Collegiate School and University of Otago Medical School.
Assistant at New Zealand hospitals 1954-1957; postgraduate work at Middx. Hospital and Postgraduate Medical School, London 1958-1960.
Physician and Research Fellow, Auckland Hospital 1961-1963.
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Association ProfProf., Department, of Medicine, University of Otago Medical School 1963-1973, Clinical Dean 1969-1973, Vice-Chancellor, Otago University since 1973. Girdler’s Company Senior Visiting Research Fellowship, Green College, University of Oxford 1986-1987.
Chairman McMillan Trust. Minister of Health 1967-1973.
Minister of Education’s Committee on Nursing 1972.
Chairman Otago Medical Research Foundation 1975-1981. Trustee, New Zealand Red Cross Foundation. Nuffield Dominion Travelling Fellowship in Medicine 1957.
Leverhulme Research Scholarship, Middx.
Hospital, London 1958. Honorary degree (Edinburgh).
Queen"s Jubilee.
Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee to
Married Elizabeth Mary Corbett in 1957.