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- Francis Stanislaus Flynn was a Northern Territory-based Australian medical doctor, author and missionary priest.
- He was born on 6 December 1906 and educated in Sydney, receiving MB BS with 1st class honours in 1930.
- Francis Stanislaus Flynn (1906–2000), Catholic priest and ophthalmologist, was born on 6 December 1906 in Sydney, sixth of nine surviving children of.
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Frank O'Flynn
New Zealand politician
Francis Duncan O'FlynnQC (24 October 1918 – 17 October 2003) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Biography
O'Flynn was born in Runanga in 1918.[1] He was the son of Francis Edward O'Flynn and Margaret Helen Valentine Duncan. He received his education at Christchurch Normal School and Christchurch Boys' High School. He received his BA in 1940, and joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1942.[2]
He married Sylvia Elizabeth Hefford in 1942 and they had four children. He obtained his LLB in 1947 and LLM in 1948.[2] At the 1947, 1950 and 1953 local-body elections he was stood unsuccessfully for the Wellington City Council on the Labour Party ticket.[1]
He served as a law clerk at O'Regan and Arndt in Wellington until 1954. He was a barrister and solicitor until 1968, when he was named Queen's Counsel (QC). He represented the victims of the Wahine ferry disaster in 1968.[2][1] Also in 1968 he was elected a member of the Otaki Borough Council. In 1971 he
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
6 December, 1906
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
29 July, 2000 (aged 93)
Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- ophthalmologist (1930-1967) Northern Territory, Australia
- army chaplain (1942-1946) Federal, Australia
- army medical officer (1942-1946) Federal, Australia
- Catholic priest (1942-1967) Northern Territory, Australia
- air force chaplain (1946-1948) Federal, Australia
- air force medical officer (1946-1948) Federal, Australia
- Catholic priest (1967-1977) Papua Ne
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Frank Flynn
Australian ophthalmologist and Catholic priest
For the Cuban pianist, see Frank Emilio Flynn. For the Australian rugby league player, see Frank Flynn (rugby league).
Francis Stanislaus Flynn (6 December 1906, Sydney – 29 July 2000) was a Northern Territory-based Australian medical doctor (ophthalmologist), author and missionary priest. He is notable for his contributions to religion, medicine and Aboriginal welfare.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
He was born on 6 December 1906 and educated in Sydney, receiving MB BS with 1st class honours in 1930. In 1931 he sailed to England and in 1931 and 1933–1934 studied and worked at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields) in London. Prior to World War II he had made several important contributions to the study of eye disease, including the introduction of a new drug which he named Mydriciane, and the design and patenting of a machine used in operating on detached retinas.[2][5]
He returned to Sydney in 1934 and joined the Missionaries of
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