James Vincent Duhig

James Vincent Duhig (1889–1963) was an Australian pathologist.

Dr James Vincent Duhig, c1940
James Vincent Duhig, medical student at University of Sydney, 1909

In Brisbane, he established the first pathology laboratories at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital and the Brisbane General Hospital.[1]

He campaigned successfully to establish a medical school in Queensland (now the University of Queensland Mayne Medical School). He was the University of Queensland's first professor of pathology from 1938 to 1947. He founded the Red Cross Blood Bank in Queensland.[2] He was the Australian President of the Association of Clinical Pathologists and campaigned for the establishment the College of Pathologists of Australia.[3]

Duhig was also recognised as an art aficionado and critic, president of the Royal Queensland Art Society 1937–1946. He donated a collection of books to the Darnell Collection, University of Queensland.[4]

He was the nephew of James Duhig, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, but it was a problematic relationship for the Archbishop as his nephew was a secular rationalist.[3]

References
  1. Mellor, Lise. "Duhig, James Vincent". Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive. University of Sydney. Archived from the original on 2020-03-27. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  2. Leggett, C. A. C. (1981). "Duhig, James Vincent (1889–1963)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 8. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 14 January 2021 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  3. Buch, Neville. "James Vincent Duhig". History & Philosophy in Queensland. University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 2020-03-27. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  4. Alan McCulloch (1968). Encyclopedia of Australian Art. Hutchinson. SBN 090814207.
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