Charlie MacKay

Charles Vincent MacKay FRACP (3 May 1880 – 26 April 1953) was a noted Australian medical specialist and an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2][3]

Charlie MacKay
Personal information
Full name Charles Vincent MacKay
Date of birth (1880-05-03)3 May 1880[1]
Place of birth Woods Point, Victoria
Date of death 26 April 1953(1953-04-26) (aged 72)
Place of death South Yarra, Victoria
Original team(s) Trinity College
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1905–06 Melbourne 12 (7)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1911.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Donald MacKay (1849–1934),[4] and Eleanor (a.k.a. "Helen") MacKay (1855–1930), née Vincent,[5][6] Charles Vincent MacKay was born at Woods Point, Victoria on 3 May 1880.[7]

He married Rose Nita née Collins, née Mackay (1890–1973) in Marylebone, London, England in 1927.

Football

Charles MacKay played VFL football while studying Medicine at Trinity College.[8]

Medicine

He graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne at the end of 1905.[9]

Following his graduation, MacKay worked in several Melbourne hospitals, completing a Doctorate of Medicine by Thesis in 1910,[10] and taking the role of medical superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital in 1911.[11]

Military service

At the outbreak of World War I, MacKay joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in England,[12] where he was twice Mentioned in Despatches. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he took command of the No 80 General Hospital in Salonika during the latter stages of the war.[13]

Post-war Medicine

MacKay remained in England for several years following the war;[14][15] and, after returning to Australia, he served as medical assistant to the director of the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra, in 1936, and as Acting Director in 1937.[16]

MacKay was appointed as director of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria in 1939.[17]

During World War II he was wartime executive medical officer of the Medical Equipment Control Committee, and after the war he joined the Cancer Institute as a secretary and later served as its executive medical officer.[18]

Death

He died at his residence on 26 April 1953.[19]

Notes
  1. "Family Notices". The Argus (10, 570). Victoria, Australia. 5 May 1880. p. 1.
  2. "MacKay, Charles Vincent (1880–1953)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science.
  3. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 537. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  4. Deaths: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Monday, 23 July 1934), p.1.
  5. Marriages: Mackay (sic)—Vincent, The Mount Alexander Mail, (Monday, 16 April 1877), p.2.
  6. Deaths: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Tuesday, 1 April, 1930), p.1.
  7. Births: Mackay (sic), The Argus, (Wednesday, 5 May 1880), p.1; Births: Mackay (sic), The Australasian, (Saturday, 8 May 1880), p.26.
  8. "SOUTH MELBOURNE (8.10) BEAT MELBOURNE (3.8)". The Age (15, 704). Victoria, Australia. 10 July 1905. p. 8.
  9. "UNIVERSITY COUNCIL". The Age (15, 831). Victoria, Australia. 5 December 1905. p. 5. Retrieved 24 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. "UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE". The Herald (10, 819). Victoria, Australia. 2 July 1910. p. 8.
  11. "WOMAN'S DEATH". Weekly Times (2, 188). Victoria, Australia. 15 July 1911. p. 33.
  12. "PERSONAL". The Argus (21, 372). Victoria, Australia. 25 January 1915. p. 8.
  13. "PERSONAL". Warrnambool Standard (12, 201). Victoria, Australia. 31 December 1918. p. 3.
  14. "AUSTRALIANS ABROAD". The Australasian. CXXIV (4, 136). Victoria, Australia. 14 April 1928. p. 18.
  15. "PERSONAL". The Argus (27, 929). Victoria, Australia. 24 February 1936. p. 8.
  16. "DR. C. V. MACKAY". The Canberra Times. 13 (3, 541). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26 January 1939. p. 3.
  17. Dr. C.V. MacKay: Executive Post in Anti-Cancer Campaign: Leaving Canberra This Week, The Canberra Times, (Thursday, 26 January 1939), p.3.
  18. "OBITUARIES". The Age (30, 575). Victoria, Australia. 29 April 1953. p. 2.
  19. Deaths; MacKay, The Age, Wednesday, 29 April 1953), p.13.


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