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A E Newbury WJ Penfold, MB, CM (Edin), BHy (Dunclm)

Image courtesy Alfred Hospital, Melbourne

This portrait by AE Newbury of bacteriologist and medical scientist William James Penfold (1875–1941) is now in the collection of the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. Penfold was the first director of the Baker Medical Research Institute, from 1926 to 1938.