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"David Williams (1862–1936) was the Archdeacon of Cardigan from 1928 until his death.WILLIAMS, Ven. David’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 5 Aug 2013 Williams was educated at Llandysul Grammar School and Durham University; and ordained in 1890.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 London, OUP p 1408 He was a theology exhibitioner at Hatfield Hall. After curacies in Stella and Swansea he held incumbencies in Clydach and Llangyfelach. He died on 24 March 1936.‘Death Of The Archdeacon Of Cardigan’ The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Mar 25, 1936; pg. 18; Issue 47332 References Category:1862 births Category:1936 deaths Category:People educated at Llandysul Grammar School Category:Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham Category:Archdeacons of Cardigan "
"Madeline Rees George (25 May 1851 — 17 June 1931), often written M. Rees George, was a teacher in Germany and in South Australia. She was at various times proprietor of her own school, and headmistress of the Advanced School for Girls and Adelaide Girls' High School. She was one of the best known figures in education circles in South Australia. Her sister Marian Rees George (c. 1855 – 23 July 1938) taught French at the same institutions and retired in 1936. History Miss George was born in Lewisham, Kent, a daughter of Francis George, a London solicitor. She was educated in England and Germany. She had teaching experience at Kissingen, Wiesbaden, and Munich and came to Australia in 1879. She joined the South Australian Education Department in 1880 as the foundation teacher of languages (German in particular) in the Advanced School for Girls. In 1885 she resigned to conduct a school of her own at North Adelaide ("Miss Woolcock's school"), but in 1886 was invited to return to the department as headmistress of the Advanced School. She held this post until 1908 when the school was merged into the Adelaide Girls High School, and she was made headmistress of the new institution, in the same Grote Street premises. She resigned from the department in 1913. Miss George made trips to England in 1900 and 1907, when she went as a delegate to the first League of the Empire conference held in London, and again in 1913. She died at North Adelaide, aged 80. She never married. Other interests *She was in 1904 one of the founders and first secretary of the Adelaide branch of the League of the Empire. *One of the greatest ambitions in Miss George's life was to raise £300 through the League of the Empire to enable the statue of Charles Sturt to be erected in Adelaide. Family Marian Rees George (c. 1855 – 23 July 1938) was her sister and French mistress at both the Advanced School and Adelaide High. She lived at Childers Street, North Adelaide. Another sister, Ella "Nellie" Rees George (c. 1853 – 31 May 1948), married John Holland Robertson on 22 January 1878. He, with his brothers Robert and William owned Calperum and Chowilla stations. They were neighbours and friends of the Cudmore family. References External links *Rees George, Madeline (1851–1931) in the Australian Dictionary of Biography Category:Australian headmistresses Category:1851 births Category:1931 deaths Category:19th-century Australian educators Category:20th-century Australian educators Category:19th-century Australian women Category:20th-century Australian women Category:19th-century women educators Category:20th-century women educators "
"Arthur Percy Noyes, M.D. (1880-1963) was a physician, psychiatric hospital administrator and medical educator, In his career he published a number of textbooks and articles that relate to the modernization of psychiatric practices, outpatient care and the need for life-long education for medical staff. He was born in Enfield, New Hampshire, of Puritan stock who emigrated to the American colonies from England in 1633. His early education was in a one-room schoolhouse and later at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire. He entered Dartmouth College in 1899 and worked his way through college by teaching in rural areas. After his college graduation in 1902, he entered the University of Pennsylvania medical school. He graduated in 1906. He interned for one year at the City Hospital in New York City and then spent several years in general practice in New York and Connecticut. Noyes returned to Philadelphia for one year of graduate study in internal medicine and neurology, and then entered the field of psychiatry at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. From 1916 to 1920, he was an assistant physician and executive officer at the hospital. In 1920, Noyes moved to Washington, D.C., to join the medical staff at the St. Elizabeths Hospital. He served under William A. White, the superintendent, who was a leader in psychiatry and in the administration of psychiatric hospitals. In 1929, Noyes moved to Rhode Island to become the superintendent of the state's mental hospital. He stayed until 1936 when he moved to the state mental hospital in Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he remained for 19 years until he retired. He had a productive tenure at these hospitals: modernizing the facilities, developing teaching curricula for medical students from the University of Pennsylvania and the Jefferson Medical School. He is also credited with creating a psychiatric residency training programs which last for over fifty years. Noyes wrote A Textbook on Psychiatry for Students and Graduates in Schools of Nursing in 1936.https://archive.org/details/modernclinicalps00noye Noyes's teaching activities led to publication of his textbook Modern Clinical Psychiatry. His textbook was widely used in medical schools when it was first published in 1934. He was president of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society and the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society. At the American Psychiatric Association, he served on the Committees of Nursing Standards and Policies, the Council, the Executive Committee, and as president from 1954 to 1955. His Presidential Address stressed the importance of studying the humanities in psychiatric education. Select Works and Publications *Noyes, Arthur Percy. A Textbook of Psychiatry for Students and Graduates in Schools of Nursing. New York, Macmillan, 1927 *Noyes, Arthur Percy. Modern Clinical Psychiatry. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1934 *Noyes, Arthur Percy. A Textbook of Psychiatry. New York, Macmillan, 1936 References *Bookhammer, Robert S. "Arthur Percy Noyes, M.D., President, 1954-1955: A Biographical Sketch," American Journal of Psychiatry 112 (1 July 1955): 8-10 External links * Category:1880 births Category:1963 deaths Category:American psychiatrists Category:People from Enfield, New Hampshire Category:Physicians from New Hampshire Category:Dartmouth College alumni Category:Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni Category:American Psychiatric Association Category:American textbook writers "