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38 Aust. & N.Z. J. Criminology 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/anzjc38 and id is 1 raw text is: OBITUARY A Tribute to Allen Bartholomew D r Allen Austin Bartholomew, MB BS (Lon), MRCS, LRCP, DPM, FRCPsych, FRANZCP, MAPsS, who died in Melbourne on June 19, 2004, was a distin- guished forensic psychiatrist who made a unique contribution to the development of Australian criminology. In fact, it can be confidently asserted that were it not for him this journal would not now be in its 38th year of publication, nor would there be an Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology of the same age. Allen was born in Palestine on October 23, 1925, the son of a Royal Air Force officer who later became an Anglican clergyman in England. Allen was educated in England, initially at Caterham School in Surrey and later at Westminster Hospital in London, where he studied medicine. He then spent some time in the British Navy and later studied psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, where his mentors included the eminent authorities Peter Scott and Denis Leigh. After completing his training he joined the English Prison Service and for the next few years worked in a number of different correctional institutions, including Broadmoor and Brixton Prison. During this period he became increasingly interested in the relationship between psychiatry and the law and the ways in which the two disciplines could cooperate to assist in the understanding of the psychological and medical aspects of crime and the reform of offenders. In 1959 he was recruited from the English Prison Service to become the first Psychiatrist Superintendent of Pentridge Prison in Melbourne and head of the Alexandra Clinic, a nonresidential mental health facility. He was also to be responsi- be for a newly established telephone service that provided advice and assistance to people who were mentally ill. He later accepted a number of part-time positions including those of honorary lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at Monash University, senior consultant psychiatrist to the Royal Australian Navy, member of the Board of Studies (and part-time ecturer) in Criminology at the University of Melbourne, and senior associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the same university. In many of these positions he demonstrated that he was a highly gifted teacher, as well as an insightful clinical interviewer of patients or prisoners in front of mixed groups of medical, psychology and law students. He had these inter- views both in Pentridge and, after his retirement, in his private consulting rooms. Richard Fox from Monash law school often told his students before these sessions, 'You will never forget as long as you live what you are going to see today'. He was also a formidable expert witness in the courts, whether appearing for the prosecution or the defence. He appeared in many Victorian Supreme Court and County Court criminal cases involving mental state defences and was highly regarded by judges for his ability to express his psychiatric diagnoses in acceptable legal terms. He seemed to know how judges thought and what they wanted of him, which was a rare gift for a psychiatrist. He was no doubt a brilliant diagnostician and communica- tor, but it has been said of him that he was a frustrated lawyer who much preferred appearing in court to the routine psychiatric work of clinical treatment. THEAUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY VOLUME 38 NUMBER I 2005 Pp. 1-3

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