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to investigate causes of the decline of the birth rate; he was largely responsible for the report that was issued. He had for some time been interested in the care of delinquent and mentally deficient children and in 1902 was appointed president of the state Children's Relief Department. He published
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In 1882, he was appointed the first president of the newly formed Board of Health, which brought him in touch with the poor of Sydney and the conditions in which they lived. Mackellar took much interest in his new position, and gave the new department a great start. Mackellar became very good friends
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in 1896. Mackellar was later president of the bank for most of the years 1901–1923. Mackellar was also chairman of the Gloucester Estate Co., chairman of the Mutual Life & Citizens' Assurance Co. Ltd; he had been a trustee in 1911–14. He was also a director of Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd, the
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from 26 February to 23 December 1886, and then Secretary for Mines until the government was defeated on 19 January 1887. But though a good administrator, Mackellar was not a party man, and possibly for that reason did not hold parliamentary office again. In 1903 Mackellar was appointed a
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in 1871. He then returned to Australia and registered with the Medical Board of New South Wales on 25 March 1872 and established a successful practice as a physician. Mackellar was honorary surgeon at the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary 1873–77 (known as
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on his return in 1913. He resigned his presidency of the state children's relief board in 1916. He still, however, retained his interest and in 1917 published an open letter to the Minister of Public Health on
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in 1889–1901; vice-president and in 1907–14 president of the Sydney Amateur Orchestral Society; inaugural vice-president of the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies in 1918; and a member of the
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In 1912 Mackellar visited Europe and the United States to study the methods of treatment of delinquent and neglected children, and issued a valuable report
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in 1881; founding councillor and in 1883–84 president of the New South Wales branch of the British Medical Association; examiner in medicine at the
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Mackellar's health and memory started to decline from 1923 and he died at Sydney, on 14 July 1926; he was buried in the Anglican section of
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He married in 1877, Marion, daughter of Thomas Buckland, who survived him with two sons and a daughter,
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Mackellar resigned from his offices in August 1885, and on 8 September 1885 was nominated to the
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Charles Mackellar was born in Sydney, the only son of Dr Frank Mackellar (a physician from
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Union Trustee Co. of Australia Ltd, United Insurance Co. Ltd, Royal Insurance Co. Ltd,
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from 1885 to 1925, with the exception of a period of 50 days in 1903 when he filled a
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Treatment of Neglected and Delinquent Children in Great Britain, Europe, and America
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Mackellar succeeded his father-in-law, Thomas Buckland, as a director of the
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district. After leaving school had spent several years working on the land.
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Australian Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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The Honourable
KCMG

Senator
New South Wales
Richard O'Connor
Legislative Council of New South Wales
Lord Augustus Loftus
Sir Harry Rawson
Sydney
New South Wales
Protectionist Party
Dorothea Mackellar
Dunara
KCMG
New South Wales Legislative Council
casual vacancy
Senate
Dorothea Mackellar
Dundee
Scotland
William McGarvie
Sydney Grammar School
Port Macquarie
University of Glasgow
MB
Ch.M.
Sydney Hospital
Normand MacLaurin
Dunara

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