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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Dr Richard Lefroy was born in Perth in 1918, the son of Edward Henry Bruce Lefroy, a pastoralist and a member of one of the long established families of Western Australia, and Beatrice nee Vincent. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School and the University of Oxford. Having been invalided from the British Army, he went to Melbourne where he graduated in medicine in 1946. Returning to Perth he was an RMO at Royal Perth Hospital from 1946 to 1948, a General Practitioner from 1948 to 1950 and rejoined Royal Perth Hospital staff in 1951 as Assistant Medical Superintendant in which year he also became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Practising as a Physician since 1951, he became associated with the developing University Department of Medicine in 1957 and it's Associate Professor of Medicine and a Consultant to Royal Perth Hospital. Seeing the need of the community for a geriatric medical service, he joined the medical administration of the Hospital and Health Department of the State in 1964. From then until 1982, he pioneered the development of geriatric medicine in this state. Richard Lefroy is a past President of the Australian Geriatric Society and at the time of writing, President of the Australian Association of Gerontology. His writings illustrate this well: Medical Care of Elderly and Disabled People in "Changing Disease Patterns and Human Behaviour", Academic Press, 1980, eds Stanley and Joske, and, History of the Australian Geriatric Society in Wiseman J, ed, "To Follow Knowledge", Sydney RACP, 1988. In his private life he was greatly supported by his wife Betty (Elizabeth nee Lee Steere) and, after her death, by his second wife Jennifer (nee Page). He has five children: two agricultural scientists, two teachers and a social worker. |
