kendall_family_nsw - Person Sheet
kendall_family_nsw - Person Sheet
NameHector Kendall 
Birth1885
Death3 Oct 1961, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
FatherWilliam Tyson Kendall (1851-1936)
MotherElizabeth Park (-1904)
Notes for Hector Kendall
William Tyson's fifth son and successor to his Fitzroy practice, Hector (1885-1961) was educated at Wesley College, the Melbourne Veterinary College and the University of Melbourne (B.V.Sc., 1917). For thirty years he was veterinary surgeon to the Royal Society of Victoria, toria, the Victoria, torian Society for Protection of Animals and the Victoria, torian Trotting and Racing Association. In 1933 he was appointed assistant director of the Royal Zoological and Acclimatisation Society with the right of succession to the director Andrew Wilkie — an agreement reluctantly ratified by the Legislative Assembly when, on Wilkie's retirement late in 1936, a Zoological Board was formed.
Kendall's association with the board remained uneasy; he publicly blamed the board for the death of 100 monkeys after alterations to their enclosures, and other disagreements led to his dismissal in September 1945. He developed a practice at Sunbury and died in Melbourne on 3 October 1961.
Kendall's association with the board remained uneasy; he publicly blamed the board for the death of 100 monkeys after alterations to their enclosures, and other disagreements led to his dismissal in September 1945. He developed a practice at Sunbury and died in Melbourne on 3 October 1961.