David Kailen Medley

Peter married Andrea Lela Schummer. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David, after some years in Australia in Aircraft Engineering, went to work in USA in various roles for Rockwell. His wife Ruth née Crane predeceased him and both his children died a few years later. David served in the Second World War in the R.A.N.V.R as the Radar Officer and was sunk in HMAS Canberra just before the Battle of the Coral Sea, safely rescued luckily by the Americans.

David married Ruth Christina Crane. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, Cramond, Midlothian, Scotland
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age: 19; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1922, South Yarra, Fawkner, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

1st son. Baptised 14 May 1891 at St. Giles, Oxford. Educated at Winchester College (scholar) 1904-10; matric at Oxford (scholar of New College) 1910; 1st class Mods. 1912; 1st class Lit. Humaniores 1914. Cremated at Springvale, nr. Melbourne.

At Winchester was "Prefect of Hall" 1909-10. Elected Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Oct. 1914 but never resided. In the Great War 2nd Lieut. 15 October 1914 in 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion (Territorial) of The Welsh Regiment. Temporary Captain 1915 as a Railway Transport Officer in France. On General Staff in France as A.D.C. to General Sir Tom Bridges (Head Quarters 19th Divn.) Dec. 1915-Nov. 1916. Returned to Ry. Transport Nov. 1916-May 1917. Thereafter in "Grand Quartier General" French Armies in liaison work till Mar. 1919. Temporary Major from September 1918. Medals, 1914 Star, British War medal, Allies (Victory) medal.

Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, May 1919 and was one of the managers of their Australian Branch, Gibbs Bright & Co. 1920-30 (Melbourne 1920-23, Adelaide 1923-25, Sydney 1925-30). Headmaster of "Tudor House" Preparatory School nr. Mossvale, N.S.W. from 1931-38. Elected Vice-Chancellor, Melbourne University in 1938 from which post he retired in 1951. Knighted 1948.

A Trustee of the Australian National Gallery from 1941, and Chairman from 1951. Member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1942. President of the Australian Council for Educational Research 1948. Portrait by Max Meldrum in the John Medley building, part of the Arts Faculty, University of Melbourne.

1 son, David John Medley (United States citizen 1967), m. Ruth Crane and has issue. 1 daughter, Diana Mary m. Francis Barrington Hall, Chief of Protocol, Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Canberra (1978) and has issue.

John married Emmeline Mary Newbolt on 15 Sep 1916 in Southwark Cathedral, Surrey. Emmeline (daughter of Sir Francis George Newbolt and Alice Clara Franck Bright) was born on 5 Aug 1891 in Weybridge, Surrey; died on 4 Mar 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was her husband's third cousin. 2nd daughter of Sir Francis G. Newbolt, Knight, K.C. and Official Referee of the Supreme Court, by Alice Clara Franck (born 1867), 2nd daughter of Rev. Dr. J.F. Bright and sister of E. Gertrude F. Gibbs. Baptised 30 September 1891 at St. Michael's there. Married by her uncle Dr. Hubert Burge, Bishop of Southwark. Cremated at Springdale, Memorial Inscription there.

Oil portrait with her sister Evelyn by John Cook (1913) last in possession of her father.

Birth:
Oakley Lodge