Background
STIRLING, Edward Charles was born on September 8, 1848 in South Australia. Son of late Honourable E. Stirling, Member of Legislative Council.
STIRLING, Edward Charles was born on September 8, 1848 in South Australia. Son of late Honourable E. Stirling, Member of Legislative Council.
Studied at St. Peter’s College, S. A. Trinity College, Cambridge. St. George’s Hospital, London.
Master of Arts; Doctor of Medicine Of Cambridge University.
House surgeon, assistant surgeon, lecturer on Physiology, St. George’s Hospital. Returning to S.A. in 1881 became Lecturer and subsequently Professor of Physical Adelaide University. Consulting surgeon, Adelaide Hospital.
Director, S.A. Museum. Member, House of Assembly, 1883-1886. Member, Council Adelaide University.
President Australasian Medical Congress, Adelaide, 1905. Publications.-contributions to medical journals. Joint author of article Hydatids in Allbutt’s System of Medicine.
Notoryctes typhlops, a New Genus and Species of Marsupial (Trans. R.S. of S.A.); Genyornis newtoni, a Fossil Struthious Bird from Lake Callabonna (Trans. R.S. of S.A.).
Manus and pes of Diprotodon australis (Memorandum R.S. of S.A.).
Report on the Anthropology of Central Australia, Report Horn Scientific Expedition. And other contributions to Trans. R.S. of S.A., R. Zool.
Society, etc.; Professor of Physiology, Adelaide University. Director, South Australian Museum. C. M.Z.S.; Honourable Fellow Anthropological Institute of Great Britain.
Fellow of the Royal Society. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Clubs: Athenaeum, New University; Adelaide.
Shooting, horticulture.
Spouse 1877, Jane,daughter of late Joseph Gilbert, Pewsey Vale, S.A.