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Constance Elizabeth D'Arcy

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D'Arcy was a fellow of the Senate at the University of Sydney for thirty years from 1919 until 1949. She became Deputy Chancellor at the university from 1943 until 1946. She was the first woman in this role. She also an executive member of the Sydney University Women's Union, the Catholic University
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In 1935, was invited to speak at the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra. She spoke on maternal mortality, control of septicaemia and the rise in deaths from illegal operations but condemned any move to legalize abortion. In 1940, she was awarded the
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D'Arcy completed a Bachelor of Medicine (BM) and Master of Surgery (CHM) at the University of Sydney in 1904 and went on to do her residency at the
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D'Arcy was an avid collector of jewellery â€” on emergency calls, the first task of the sister on duty was to lock it away.
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Synnott) and Murtagh "Murty" D'Arcy, a police sergeant. She attended Rylstone Public School and Riviere College, Woollahra.
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at Sacred Heart Hospice for the Dying, Darlinghurst, on 25 April 1950. After the requiem Mass at
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from 1943 until 1946. In 1935, she was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).
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Women Graduates' Association and the Sydney University Women Graduates' Association.
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a teaching hospital and served as honorary gynaecologist from 1923 until 1945.
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At the Senate at the University of Sydney, she supported the proposal to make
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In 1935, she was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).
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For many years, two of D'Arcy's sisters kept house for her. She died of
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Radi, Heather. "D'Arcy, Dame Constance Elizabeth (1879–1950)".
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Australian Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Dame

Rylstone, New South Wales
Australia
Darlinghurst, New South Wales
BM
MS
DBE
University of Sydney
Rylstone, New South Wales
nÊe
(Royal) Adelaide Hospital
Royal Hospital for Women
Macquarie Street
St Vincent's Hospital
Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice
cerebrovascular disease
St Mary's Cathedral
Waverley Cemetery
Chifley







"D'Arcy, Dame Constance Elizabeth (1879–1950)"
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian National University

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