Athol Tymms
Athol Stanley Mortimer Tymms was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.
Family
The third son, and the eighth of the eleven children of English-born jeweller, Robert Joseph Tymms, and Canadian-born Anna Augusta Tymms, née Magee, Athol Stanley Mortimer Tymms was born at Essendon, Victoria on 21 February 1886.Marriages
He married his first wife, Ethel Mary Ragg, at Sydney, on 17 December 1915; they had one child: Robert Dunlop Tymms.He married his second wife, Alison Atkins Fletcher, at Deniliquin, New South Wales in 1937; they had two children: the twins, Athol Mortimer Tymms, and John Mortimer Tymms, both born on 1 August 1938.
Education
Having been educated at Melbourne Grammar School from 1901 to 1904 where he excelled as both an athlete and a footballer Tymms went on to study medicine at the University of Melbourne.- In 1910, he shared the prestigious Beaney Scholarship for Surgery with his fellow Old Melburnian, University Football Club team-mate, and fellow medical student, Edward Cordner.
- He was scheduled to graduate Bachelor of Medicine on 23 December 1910; however, he did not attend the graduation ceremony.
- He graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) on 2 March 1911.
- He graduated Doctor of Medicine (MD) on 5 April 1913.
- He graduated Master of Surgery (MS) on 8 April 1916.