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Rodney Seaborn
Rodney Frederick Marsden Seaborn AO OBE (1912 − 17 May 2008) was an Australian psychiatrist, businessman, and philanthropist in the performing arts sector. He was responsible for supporting many theatre companies and professionals in Sydney, and was an advocate of Australian theatre.
He was the founding president of the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation (SBW), and the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award was established in 2000 funded by him and continued by a dedicated trust fund.
Rodney Frederick Marsden Seaborn was born in 1912. His parents were Leslie, a solicitor and amateur actor, and Ethel Seaborn, a singer. His paternal great-grandfather, Hugh Seaborn, had migrated from England to Australia in 1850, becoming the first rector in Gundagai, New South Wales. His grandfather Frederick Seaborn, also a clergyman, married his grandmother Eliza Marsden, a relative of the Reverend Samuel Marsden. His mother Ethel's family was descended on one side from an early convict settler on the Third Fleet.
He grew up with a love of theatre. His maternal grandmother, Edith, often took him to the theatre as a child. The first play Rodney recalled seeing was a production of As You Like It when he was seven years old. He attended Edgecliff Preparatory School, and then boarding school at The King's School, where he had a comedic part in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Suffering from severe stagefright, however, he fell down and was unable to get back up.
His father was an alcoholic and died when Rodney was 19, which caused his mother to suffer depression. After leaving school, Seaborn worked at various jobs, setting up his own car hire and chauffering business, and working on a tobacco farm in Queensland belonging to an uncle.
He eventually enrolled for a law degree at University of Sydney, but later left for England, where he began studying medicine at the University of London in 1939. He was working as an intern at Charing Cross Hospital as the German Luftwaffe bombed London during the Blitz.
After the Second World War, Seaborn returned to Sydney to look after his mother and sister, Mollie, who was also unwell. He then returned to London with his mother, and studied psychiatry at Banstead Hospital in Surrey, where he treated many cases of what was then known as shell shock.
In the 1950s, Seaborn returned to Australia and worked extensively with returning servicemen at Concord Repatriation Hospital and Callan Park Mental Hospital. In 1955 he started a psychiatry practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney.
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Rodney Seaborn
Rodney Frederick Marsden Seaborn AO OBE (1912 − 17 May 2008) was an Australian psychiatrist, businessman, and philanthropist in the performing arts sector. He was responsible for supporting many theatre companies and professionals in Sydney, and was an advocate of Australian theatre.
He was the founding president of the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation (SBW), and the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award was established in 2000 funded by him and continued by a dedicated trust fund.
Rodney Frederick Marsden Seaborn was born in 1912. His parents were Leslie, a solicitor and amateur actor, and Ethel Seaborn, a singer. His paternal great-grandfather, Hugh Seaborn, had migrated from England to Australia in 1850, becoming the first rector in Gundagai, New South Wales. His grandfather Frederick Seaborn, also a clergyman, married his grandmother Eliza Marsden, a relative of the Reverend Samuel Marsden. His mother Ethel's family was descended on one side from an early convict settler on the Third Fleet.
He grew up with a love of theatre. His maternal grandmother, Edith, often took him to the theatre as a child. The first play Rodney recalled seeing was a production of As You Like It when he was seven years old. He attended Edgecliff Preparatory School, and then boarding school at The King's School, where he had a comedic part in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Suffering from severe stagefright, however, he fell down and was unable to get back up.
His father was an alcoholic and died when Rodney was 19, which caused his mother to suffer depression. After leaving school, Seaborn worked at various jobs, setting up his own car hire and chauffering business, and working on a tobacco farm in Queensland belonging to an uncle.
He eventually enrolled for a law degree at University of Sydney, but later left for England, where he began studying medicine at the University of London in 1939. He was working as an intern at Charing Cross Hospital as the German Luftwaffe bombed London during the Blitz.
After the Second World War, Seaborn returned to Sydney to look after his mother and sister, Mollie, who was also unwell. He then returned to London with his mother, and studied psychiatry at Banstead Hospital in Surrey, where he treated many cases of what was then known as shell shock.
In the 1950s, Seaborn returned to Australia and worked extensively with returning servicemen at Concord Repatriation Hospital and Callan Park Mental Hospital. In 1955 he started a psychiatry practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney.