James Barrett (academic)

Sir James William Barrett, was an Australian ophthalmologist and academic administrator.
Born in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, he was educated at the University of Melbourne and King's [College London].
During World War I he organised a successful open-air hospital in the grounds of Luna Park, Cairo, for military casualties from the Gallipoli landings.
He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne from 1931 to 1934, and then as Chancellor from 1935 to 1939. He was President of the British [Medical Association] from 1935 to 1936, and the inaugural president of the Victorian Town Planning and Parks Association, now the Town and Country Planning Association. He was a notable supporter of Jewish refugee migration to Australia by persons fleeing Nazism.