Charles Duguid (1884 – 1986) medical practitioner Charles
Duguid, medical practitioner and moderator of the Presbyterian
Church, was born in Glasgow in 1884. Duguid crusaded tirelessly
for the Aboriginal cause. He established a mission at Ernabella
in north-western South Australia where people were free to
practise their culture and where they were taught in their own
language. He emigrated to Australia just before the First World
War. From the 1930s when he first met with the Pitjantjatjara
people, until the 1970s, Duguid crusaded tirelessly for the
Aboriginal cause. He established a mission at Ernabella in
north-western South Australia where people were free to practise
their culture and where they were taught in their own language.
Both of these approaches were unusually far-sighted at the time.
With his wife Phyllis, he established the South Australian
Aborigines’ Advancement League to inform white Australians of
the sufferings of Aboriginal people and engage them in
campaigning for legislative reforms an