Littlejohn, Patricia

She was the second woman to enrol (1931), but the first to graduate from the Sydney University Veterinary School in 1935. She first worked as a demonstrator in Anatomy at the Sydney Veterinary School, before accompanying her medical graduate husband, Terrence Abbott on postings with the British Colonial Service to Hong Kong, and after the War to Sarawak, East Africa, the Seychelles, and North Borneo. In 1954 they joined the Australian Administraion of TPNG (Territories of Papua and new Guinea) where Pat worked for the next ten years as Veterinary Pathologist for the DASF (Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries). Following a year or so in Greece they moved to England where Pat worked as a pathologist for Glaxo at Greenford in England. In 1973 she returned to Australia and became a part time demonstrator in veterinary pathology at the Sydney Veterinary School, retiring in 1987. Her daughter is also a distinguished veterinary graduate. Pat died in 1998.

A more detailed biography can be found at http://www.vetsci.usyd.edu.au/avhs/eminent/