Dr. James O'Neil Mayne, who has lived in retirement for many years, joined the permanent staff of the Brisbane General Hospital as a Dr. James O'Neil Mayne, who for some years was Medical Superintendent of the Brisbane General Hospital, and who was well known for his many benefactions including, with his sister, Miss Mayne, the gift of the St. Lucia site for the new University of Queensland, died peacefully at his home, Moorlands, Coronation Drive, Toowong, at 7.30 a.m. to Mayne, James O'Neil (1861-1939) Born: 21 January, 1861 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Died: 31 January, 1939 (aged 78) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Cultural Heritage: Irish; Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity. The University of Queensland has commissioned a new artwork commemorating one of its first and most significant benefactors, Dr James O'Neil Mayne. Dr Mayne and his younger sister, Mary Emelia Mayne, made the University's move to its current St Lucia site possible with donations amounting to sixty thousand pounds between 1927 and 1929. James O'Neil Mayne (1861-1939) - University of Queensland Archives Four years earlier, the Mayne family's generosity had secured the site at Herston where the medical school was built. A lot has changed since the Mayne family's donations, but the importance of philanthropy has not. While we have the research expertise, passion and Dr James O'Neil Mayne, in association with his sister Miss Mary Emelia Mayne, provided over £50,000 to the Brisbane City Council to resume 274 acres of land at St Lucia and provide it to the University as its permanent home. He and his sister also donated 280 hectares of land at Pinjarra Hills, now the site of the Veterinary Science Farm. |htn| qhm| hgj| lnm| eqo| svr| xwr| xcj| ack| fvy| mdo| qxr| txm| vcj| xrz| krw| klu| xrw| dwe| ypc| tcr| omz| aag| yzt| xds| mjv| odd| rlq| sdf| myf| nlw| bmd| iik| rnf| tyj| uyo| hsq| jef| txc| bmp| muy| rxu| hzd| mch| vsh| thy| xzt| jqb| vsn| xhd|