biographies

Lloyd, Henry Cairns (1865 - 1943)

M.D., F.R.C.S. (Edin.)

Born
18 August 1865
Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Died
1 August 1943
Australia
Occupation
Gynaecologist, Medical practitioner and Obstetrician

Details

Transcription of item written by Dr Colin Macdonald and published in "The Book of Remembrance", The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1956.


HENRY CAIRNS LLOYD
(1903 - 1943)

Henry Cairns Lloyd was born at Alma Road, Caulfield, Victoria, on the eighteenth of August 1865, the younger son of John Charles Lloyd, insurance broker, and Margaret Ballingall, his wife, who was a daughter of the well known Presbyterian minister, Dr. Adam Cairns. He was educated at the Toorak College, Melbourne, and then undertook the long journey to Scotland to study medicine at the Edinburgh University, where he graduated in 1893. Shortly after this he returned to Victoria, and was in general practice for a brief period.

Cairns Lloyd now decided upon a career of specialisation in obstetrics and gynaecology, and to gain the necessary training he returned to the British Isles. For some year he was an assistant master, under Dr. Purefoy, at the Rotunda Hospital Dublin, where he gained the Licentiate of Midwifery. Following this he studied under the leaders of the Vienna School, then returned to Edinburgh where he obtained the higher qualifications of M.D. and F.R.C.S. in 1902.

He then returned and settled in Melbourne, and in 1903, with his appointment as Honorary Midwifery Surgeon, he began the long period of his service to the Women’s Hospital. In 1910, he was Chairman of the Honorary Midwifery Staff, and in 1913, Honorary Outdoor Surgeon. In 1914, with the expansion of the hospital staff, he became Honorary Infirmary Surgeon, which post he held until 1925, when he was appointed Honorary Consultant Surgeon. He became a life governor of this hospital in 1910.

Cairns Lloyd had a deep and lasting interest in his specialty. In 1905, he was one of the Sub-Committee of the Medical Society of Victoria on "Puerperal Sepsis in Private Practice". The report of this Sub-Committee, as one of the preventive measures urged, strongly recommended proper training, examination and registration of midwives. It is of interest to note that Cairns Lloyd was a pioneer of bacteriological investigation of cases of puerperal infection in this State. He was a member of the Committee of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Australasian Medical Congress of 1908, and was also a member of the Special Obstetrics Committee appointed by the British Medical Association, in 1924, to enquire into the condition of midwifery work in Victoria - this eventually led to the establishment of a Professional Chair in this State in obstetrics. He took a keen and active interest in the training of midwives and in the improvement of their working conditions. He was a member of the British Medical Association.

In 1904, Cairns Lloyd married, at Scots Church, Anne King Scott. They had two children, Leline Cairns Lloyd of Marne Street, South Yarra and John Charles Cairns Lloyd, grazier, of Narre Warren, Victoria. His wife died in 1918, and in 1925 he married secondly Frances Dudgeon. For the greater part of his life he lived at 431 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, in a home now the Nurse’s Memorial Centre. Cairns Lloyd, was, for many years, a very keen tennis player and also an enthusiastic holiday golfer. He was a member of the Australian Club and of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club.

After a prolonged illness, Henry Cairns Lloyd died at this home on the first of August, 1943.


PUBLICATIONS :

1. Two Cases of Spontaneous Rupture in the Parturient Canal During Labour,
Australian Medical Gazette, 1899, p. 385.

2. Puerperal Eclampsia, Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia, 1904,
Vol. IX, p. 282.

3. Some Notes of the Bacteriology of Puerperal Infection, Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia, 1905, Vol. X, p. 474.

4. The Use and Abuse of Pessaries, Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia, 1906, Vol. XII, p. 538.

5. Report of Two Cases of Puerperal Sepsis treated by Vaccines, Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia, 1907, Vol. XII, p. 498.

6. Artificial Dilatation of the Cervix in Pregnancy, Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia, 1908, Vol. XIII, p. 349.

7. Recent Work in the Treatment of Puerperal Sepsis, Medical Journal of Australia, 1910, Vol. XV, p. 353.

8. A case of Tubo-Ovarian Pregnancy going on to Viability (with Robert Fowler, M.D. (Melb.), Medical Journal of Australia, 1912, Vol. I, part II, p. 687.

9. Caesarean Section, Medical Journal of Australia, 1922, Vol. I, p. 231.

Archival/Heritage Resources

Royal Women's Hospital Archives

  • Book of Remembrance, 1956 - 1975; Royal Women's Hospital Archives [ Details... ].

Prepared by: Robyn Waymouth

Created: 19 September 2006, Last modified: 26 November 2006