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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Eric Kyle was born in Kalgoorlie in 1901, the third child of Ellen and Alfred Kyle, at the time of its first gold rush. One of his brothers became an Air Marshal of the Royal Air Force and sometime Governor of the State of Western Australia. Eric attended Guildford Grammar School where he excelled both academically and on the sporting field. He was to form a lifelong association with the school. He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and after graduating, held resident posts in Kalgoorlie and Perth. He was one time Medical Superintendant of the Princess Margaret Hospital and then spent three years in General Practice in Dwellingup. In 1931 he went to Britain and gained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh). On his return to Perth he developed a General Practice in Bassendean and became a relieving surgeon at Royal Perth Hospital. During the second World War he enlisted and saw service with the Australian Army Medical Corps in the Middle East (including the siege of Tobruk) and New Guinea. He was mentioned in dispatches and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After the war, he returned to Melbourne where he gained further surgical experience at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Eric then returned to Perth and became an honorary assistant surgeon to the Royal Perth Hospital's urology unit. To him much of the credit for establishing urology as a separate discipline must be laid. From 1950 he was an honorary urologist at the Hospital and also had a large private practice in urology. He was a driving force in the establishment of the Australian Kidney Foundation and was elected a life member in 1979. He also contributed to the administration of the Quadriplegic Centre at Shenton Park. He retired in 1966. Eric had a happy marriage to Sylvia Magnus, though they sadly had no children. They compensated for this by helping the education of many children at his old school. Eric was a founder member of Swan District's Football Club and had interests in horse racing and recreational fishing. He lived a very full life. Eric Kyle died in 1987. |
