Date of birth

5 January 1910 at Crushington (near Reefton)

Parents

JEJ Lovelock

Married

Cynthia Wells James

Children

Two daughters

Died

28 December 1949 in New York

Education

• Temuka Primary School
• Fairlie Primary School 1919-23
• Timaru Boys’ High School 1924-28
• University of Otago
• Exeter College Oxford
  

Honours

• Rhodes Scholar 1931
• BA (Third Class Honours in Physiology 1934) Exeter College Oxford
• MA 1937 Qualified in Medicine and Surgery
• MRCP London 1940
  

Military

• Major RAMC 1939-45
  

Career

• Staff Manhattan Hospital New York 1947
• Assistant Director 1948 Department specialising in paralysis and similar disease
  

Sporting

• Timaru Boys’ High School, School Mile Track Record
• World Mile Record Princeton United States 1933 (time 4 minutes 7.6 seconds)
• Winner Mile Empire Games 1934
• Winner 1500 metres Berlin Olympics 1936 (time 3 minutes 47.8 seconds – a world record)
  

Author

Athletics for Health 1937 later translated into Finnish and Norwegian

Last updated: 16 Sep 2021