Born at Glenelg, South Australia in 1876, third son of Charles Rischbieth, merchant, of Adelaide. He was educated at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1898. He then entered the London Hospital, where he served as house physician, ophthalmic assistant, resident anaesthetist, and emergency house surgeon. He was clinical assistant in the departments of ophthalmology, Finsen light treatment, nose, throat, and ear, and orthopaedics. As assistant to Professor William Bulloch, FRS in the pathology department he took part in the collaborative work on the heredity of disease, organized by Professor Karl Pearson, FRS, of University College, which came to publication as the well-known *Treasury of human inheritance*. Rischbieth contributed the sections on hare-lip and cleft-palate, and on dwarfism. He returned to South Australia in 1911 and graduated MA *ad eundem* at the University of Adelaide in 1920. He became surgeon to the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1911, and was surgeon to the Venereal Disease Clinic, which he founded at the Adelaide Hospital, 1915-25. He was honorary surgeon to the Adelaide Fire Brigade and Air-raid Precautions organization 1939-43. Rischbieth lived at one time at 112 Buxton Street, North Adelaide, and latterly at 34 Church Terrace, Walkerville, near Adelaide. He married in 1916 Eileen Mary, only daughter of Richard de la Poer Beresford, solicitor, of Adelaide, who survived him with three sons. The two elder sons served in the Royal Australian Navy in the war of 1939-45. Rischbieth retired from practice after a visit to England in 1925. He died at Adelaide on 13 November 1943. Rischbieth was a fine athlete, football-player, and oarsman, and a Cambridge half-blue for boxing; in later years he was a keen golfer. Publications: Pneumococcal peritonitis. *Quart J Med* 1910, 4, 205. Hare lip and cleft palate. *Treasury of human inheritance*, 1910, 1, 79-123. Dwarfism, with A Barrington and J Bell. *Ibid* 1912, 1, 355-573. Treatment of irreducible intussusception in infants; successful resection in two cases. *Austral med J* 1923, 2, 633.