John Irvine Hunter

Born: 24 January 1898, Bendigo, Victoria

Died: 10 December 1924 (London, from typhoid fever)

Family: Father, Henry Hunter, furniture dealer; Mother, Isabella Hodgson (3 sons?)

Married: 30 January 1924, Summer Hill, Sydney, Hazel Annie McPherson (1 son born on 6 September 1925)

Education:
1906 – 1912 Albury Public School
1912 – 1914 Fort Street High School (bursary student)
1915 Medical School, University of Sydney (won awards each year, and all prizes in final two years)
1920 MB ChM First Class Honours and the University Medal
1924 Doctor of Medicine, First Class Honours and the Ethel Talbot Memorial Prize (thesis on the forebrain of the kiwi)

Career:
1916 – 1917 Prospector in Anatomy, University of Sydney
1917 – 1920 Resident Medical Tutor, Wesley College, University of Sydney
1918 – 1920 Demonstrator in Anatomy, University of Sydney
July 1918 Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force but was not called up
1920 Associate Professor, Anatomy, University of Sydney
1921 Study in Britain, the United States of America, and Canada
1 March 1923 Challis Professor of Anatomy, University of Sydney
October 1924 with N.D. Royle invited by the American College of Surgeons to deliver the John B. Murphy oration in surgery in New York; went on to England to lecture at Cambridge and then London, but fell ill on arrival in London and died of typhoid fever in University College Hospital
Renowned for his joyous and unselfish nature, and his modesty and spirituality.

Publications
20 papers in medical and scientific journals: earlier topics embryology and neurology, 1924 and 1925 topic innervation of muscle