Philip Sydney Jones

Jones as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. (Percy Spence, 1895)

Sir Philip Sydney Jones (15 April 1836 – 18 September 1918) was an Australian medical practitioner and University of Sydney vice-chancellor 1904–1906. He was knighted in 1905 for his services to the treatment of tubercuulosis. He carried out the first reported successful oophorectomy at Sydney Infirmary in 1870.[1]

  1. ^ John Garrett, 'Jones, Sir Philip Sydney (1836 - 1918)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, MUP, 1972, pp 490-491. Retrieved 2009-08-23

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