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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Norman Robinson was born in Albany, Western Australia in 1905, the son of an Albany G.P. He studied medicine at Melbourne University and graduated MB.BS. in 1928. He was a registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1929 and then went to England to further his studies. He entered general practice in Perth in 1935 and joined the Honorary Staff of the Royal Perth Hospital in the same year. He served on the Hospital Board of Management and was Chairman of the Honorary Clinical Staff and the Medical Advisory Committee. Norman Robinson joined the Army on the outbreak of the Second World War and held the rank of Lt. Colonel and C.O of Surgical Divisions at Australian Hospitals in the Middle East and Pacific Islands. He was a competent and well respected surgeon, but a man of very few words. Outside of medicine his interests were golf and farming. Norman Robinson retired in 1961 after 26 year of service. He died in December 1966. |
