Alec Birrell
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox AFL biography William Alexander Hamilton Birrell (24 January 1885 – 11 May 1948) was a doctor and an Australian rules footballer who played for University in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
The oldest son of Albert Veit Birrell and Christina Matheson, Alec Birrell was born in Laen (near Donald, Victoria) and was educated at Geelong College where he was a prominent member of the school football team.[2]
He proceeded to study medicine at the University of Melbourne[3] and during his student years Birrell was promoted from the seconds to play one VFL match for University against South Melbourne in the first round of the 1911 VFL season.[4]
After graduating as a doctor in 1914, he served with the 20th Light Horse and British Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I.[5] Upon his return to Australia, Birrell practiced in Nathalia for several years.[6] Birrell was also Vice President of the Nathalia Football Club in 1923.[7]
Birrell later brought into a medical practice in Cheltenham, Victoria in 1927.[8]
In 1920, he married Mary Adela Lane[9] and they had three children together. He died in the Repatriation Hospital in Heidelberg on 11 May 1948.[10]
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