Visit to The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

'The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute is the oldest research institute in Australia and celebrated its centenary in 2015.

Our affiliation with The Royal Melbourne Hospital links research outcomes with clinical practice to accelerate discoveries for health and disease. We offer postgraduate training as the Department of Medical Biology of The University of Melbourne.

In 1852 Walter Russell Hall arrived in Australia from England, seeking his fortune in the Victorian goldfields. Despite an inauspicious start he went on to become a very successful and wealthy businessman. In addition to pastoral holdings and mining interests, he became an agent for Cobb & Co, the horse-drawn coach line of Australian history. A consortium of seven, including Walter, invested in the firm in 1861 and turned it into a great success.

Hall married Melbourne-born Eliza Rowdon Kirk in 1874'.

------

More details to follow