Charlie MacKay
Personal information
Full name Charles Vincent MacKay
Date of birth (1880-05-03)3 May 1880[1]
Place of birth Woods Point, Victoria
Date of death 26 April 1953(1953-04-26) (aged 72)
Place of death South Yarra, Victoria
Original team(s) Trinity College
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1905–06 Melbourne 12 (7)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1911.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Charles Vincent MacKay FRACP (3 May 1880 – 26 April 1953) was a noted Australian medical specialist and an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2][3]

Family

The son of Donald MacKay (1849–1934),[4] and Eleanor (a.k.a. "Helen") MacKay (1855–1930), née Vincent,[5][6] Charles Vincent MacKay was born at Woods Point, Victoria on 3 May 1880.[7]

He married Rose Nita née Collins, née Mackay (1890–1973) in Marylebone, London, England in 1927.

Football

Charles MacKay played VFL football while studying Medicine at Trinity College.[8]

Medicine

He graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne at the end of 1905.[9]

Following his graduation, MacKay worked in several Melbourne hospitals, completing a Doctorate of Medicine by Thesis in 1910,[10] and taking the role of medical superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital in 1911.[11]

Military service

At the outbreak of World War I, MacKay joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in England,[12] where he was twice Mentioned in Despatches. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he took command of the No 80 General Hospital in Salonika during the latter stages of the war.[13]

Post-war Medicine

MacKay remained in England for several years following the war;[14][15] and, after returning to Australia, he served as medical assistant to the director of the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra, in 1936, and as Acting Director in 1937.[16]

MacKay was appointed as director of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria in 1939.[17]

During World War II he was wartime executive medical officer of the Medical Equipment Control Committee, and after the war he joined the Cancer Institute as a secretary and later served as its executive medical officer.[18]

Death

He died at his residence on 26 April 1953.[19]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 10, 570. Victoria, Australia. 5 May 1880. p. 1.
  2. ↑ "MacKay, Charles Vincent (1880–1953)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science.
  3. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 537. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  4. ↑ Deaths: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Monday, 23 July 1934), p.1.
  5. ↑ Marriages: Mackay (sic)—Vincent, The Mount Alexander Mail, (Monday, 16 April 1877), p.2.
  6. ↑ Deaths: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Tuesday, 1 April, 1930), p.1.
  7. ↑ Births: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Wednesday, 5 May 1880), p.1; Births: Mackay (sic), The Australasian, (Saturday, 8 May 1880), p.26.
  8. ↑ "SOUTH MELBOURNE (8.10) BEAT MELBOURNE (3.8)". The Age. No. 15, 704. Victoria, Australia. 10 July 1905. p. 8.
  9. ↑ "UNIVERSITY COUNCIL". The Age. No. 15, 831. Victoria, Australia. 5 December 1905. p. 5. Retrieved 24 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE". The Herald. No. 10, 819. Victoria, Australia. 2 July 1910. p. 8.
  11. ↑ "WOMAN'S DEATH". Weekly Times. No. 2, 188. Victoria, Australia. 15 July 1911. p. 33.
  12. ↑ "PERSONAL". The Argus. No. 21, 372. Victoria, Australia. 25 January 1915. p. 8.
  13. ↑ "PERSONAL". Warrnambool Standard. No. 12, 201. Victoria, Australia. 31 December 1918. p. 3.
  14. ↑ "AUSTRALIANS ABROAD". The Australasian. Vol. CXXIV, no. 4, 136. Victoria, Australia. 14 April 1928. p. 18.
  15. ↑ "PERSONAL". The Argus. No. 27, 929. Victoria, Australia. 24 February 1936. p. 8.
  16. ↑ "DR. C. V. MACKAY". The Canberra Times. Vol. 13, no. 3, 541. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26 January 1939. p. 3.
  17. ↑ Dr. C.V. MacKay: Executive Post in Anti-Cancer Campaign: Leaving Canberra This Week, The Canberra Times, (Thursday, 26 January 1939), p.3.
  18. ↑ "OBITUARIES". The Age. No. 30, 575. Victoria, Australia. 29 April 1953. p. 2.
  19. ↑ Deaths; MacKay, The Age, Wednesday, 29 April 1953), p.13.


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