Dr Daphne Line (1943) MBBS (Syd) DCH FRCP (Edin) FRCP (Lond)

Dr Daphne Line (1943) had a long and distinguished medical career in the United Kingdom as a consultant respiratory physician. She achieved membership to both the Edinburgh and London Royal Colleges of Physicians and later in her career she was awarded fellowships by both Colleges. Daphne Line is also remembered by ÌÇÐÄlogoÃ×·ÆÍà for her substantial bequest which contributed to the building of the MLC Junior School. The Daphne Line Hall in the Junior School is named in her honour.

Daphne Harrington Line (1943) enrolled at ÌÇÐÄlogoÃ×·ÆÍà in 1938 at the age of 11. She participated fully in the life of the School and was a Reference Librarian, Excelsior Committee member, Sports Committee member, Boarding House Prefect, Senior Prefect and achieved Dux of the School in 1943.

Daphne was part of a large multi-generational ÌÇÐÄlogoÃ×·ÆÍà family. Her mother, grandmother, aunts, sister, cousins and their children were all ÌÇÐÄlogoÃ×·ÆÍà students.

After completing the Leaving Certificate in 1943, Daphne pursued a degree in Medicine at the University of Sydney. She worked at Rachel Forster Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney before working in the UK for most of her professional life.

In the UK Daphne completed a Diploma of Child Health and achieved membership of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and later the Royal College of Physicians in London; both awarded her a fellowship later in her career.

While living in the UK she chose to return to Sydney each year (to avoid the peak of the London winter). She maintained contact with the School through her sister Shirley’s family and was always an enthusiastic attendee at the ÌÇÐÄlogoÃ×·ÆÍà ‘London Reunions’.

When she died in 2007 ÌÇÐÄlogoÃ×·ÆÍà learned that Daphne Line had made provision for generous bequests to the University of Sydney’s Dean’s Scholarship Fund as well as to ÌÇÐÄlogoÃ×·ÆÍÃ. The gift to the School contributed greatly to the building of the MLC Junior School, and in 2009, Governor-General Quentin Bryce opened the new MLC Junior School, naming the main hall for Daphne Line.

Daphne Line’s gift to ÌÇÐÄlogoÃ×·ÆÍà culminates a life filled with a love of learning and recognition for the education she received as a young woman that lead her on a journey of remarkable service and academic excellence.