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Phyllis Dorothy Cilento, Lady Cilento (née McGlew; 13 March 1894 – 26 July 1987) was an Australian medical practitioner, prominent medical journalist, and pioneering advocate of family planning in Queensland .
Theorist in Maternal Health and Childcare. McGlew (Cilento) was born on 13 March 1894 at Rockdale, to Charles Thomas McGlew, shipbroker and coal merchant, and his wife Alice Lane, née Walker. Dr McGlew qualified in medicine at the University of Adelaide (MB, BS, 1918).
Lauded by some as a Queensland great mere years ago, Queensland’s arch-homophobe Lady Phyllis Cilento quickly returned to obscurity once she no longer served any purpose in the state’s culture wars. Workmen removed her Ladyship’s name from the Queensland Children’s Hospital years ago now.
Phyllis Dorothy Cilento (1894-1987), medical practitioner and journalist, was born on 13 March 1894 at Rockdale, Sydney, only child of New South Wales-born parents Charles Thomas McGlew, shipbroker and coal merchant, and his wife Alice Lane, née Walker.
Phyllis Cilento has, been lauded as Queensland’s great female medical pioneer but Lilian Cooper and Josephine Bedford also deserve their place in history.
18 mars 2013 · Cilento, Lady Phyllis Dorothy (1894 - 1987) Born. 13 March 1894. Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia. Died. 26 July 1987. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Occupation. Author, Educator, Journalist, Medical practitioner and Obstetrician.
The opening of the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in South Brisbane on 29 November gives us reason to look at the extraordinary life and achievements of this great lady. Phyllis Dorothy McGlew was born in Sydney on 13 March 1894.
