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| Wazir Beg |
| Family
Name: |
Beg |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
Wazir |
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| DOB |
1827 approx.
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DOD |
4 January 1885 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Poona, India
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Place
of Death: |
Woolloomooloo, NSW |
| Age
at Death: |
58
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MRCS 1861
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Speciality:
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| Other
Occupations: |
Minister of Religion |
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| Spouse:
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Margaret Robertson m.1872 Launceston, Tas. |
| Children: |
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| Voyages:
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"Golden Land" from London arr. Melbourne 15 July 1863
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| Came
out as: |
Ship's surgeon |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
1863
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
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Off
Register: |
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| Addresses:
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Poona, India until 1854
Scotland 1855
Poona, India 1861 (MRCS Lists)
Scotland 1863 (Argus)
Melbourne, Vic 1863 (Argus)
Alberton, South Gippsland, Vic 1864 (Age)
Sydney, NSW 1865 (Maitland Mercury) |
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| Positions
Held: |
Pastor Presbyterian church, Alberton, Vic 1864
Pastor of Chalmers Church, Surry Hills, NSW 1865-1883
Reader in Oriental Languages, University of Sydney, 1866 (Barff)
A director of Sydney Hospital (Ford) |
| Publications:
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Manual of Presbyterian principles. Sydney, 1870 [by Rev Wazir Beg MD LLD] |
| Notes:
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He was raised in a Muslim family in India, but converted to Christianity. Baptised Poona 1846 (ADB)
Not in medical practice, and (contra Ford) not registered as a medical practitioner in Victoria or NSW
The MD and LLD are ascribed to him in many sources but the dates of these degrees, and the institutions that awarded them, are unknown
Although he evidently studied medicine at Edinburgh (Maan etc) he is not on the list, published by the University, of those awarded the MD before 1866 |
| Acknowledgments:
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| References: |
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Medical register. General Council of Medical Education and Registration UK 1866 [Wazir Beg, Melbourne, MRCSE 1861 registered 26 March 1863]
Members. Calendar of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 11 July 1872 [lists Wazir Beg 1861]
Medical Directory (UK) 1873 [Wazir Beg, Sydney, NSW, MRCSE 1861, corresponding member Imperial Medical Society Bordeaux]
Obituary. Australasian Medical Gazette 1884-5;4:101 [MD MRCS LLD Presbyterian minister, died Woolloomooloo aged 58 never practised medicine]
Ford E. Bibliography of Australian Medicine 1790-1900. Sydney, 1976 [author of works on religion, registered NSW but not in practice, a director of Sydney Hospital]
Barff HE. History of the University of Sydney. Sydney, 1902 p93 [Rev. Wazir Beg MD, a Presbyterian Minister, appointed Reader in Oriental Languages 1866]
Sydney University Calendar 1867 [Reader in Oriental Languages Rev. Wazir Beg MD (Edinburgh)]
Beech J. The Individual and community life : a compendium of Scottish ethnology, 2008 [Wazir Beg probably first native Indian to study in Scotland, came to study medicine at Edinburgh 1857]
Maan B. Thistle and crescent, 2009 [Wazir Beg studied medicine at Edinburgh 1857-1861]
Puna. Home and Foreign Missionary Record for the Free Church of Scotland 1 December 1849 [Mr Wazir Beg, student of divinity, helping to run the mission schools]
Puna and Nagpur. Home and Foreign Record of the Free Church of Scotland 1 September 1850 [Mr Wazir Beg (a converted Mahommedan) head teacher of the English school and teacher of divinity]
How to prolong the lives of our missionaries. Home and Foreign Record of the Free Church of Scotland 1 October 1855 [Rev Wazir Beg, the native convert, now in England from Puna]
Free Presbytery of Edinburgh. Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh) 15 October 1857 [Mr Wazir Beg, a Mahommedan convert lately employed as a missionary, applies for admission to the United Presbyterian Church]
Multum in parvo. Liverpool Mercury 24 July 1858 [Rev Wazir Beg lectures on Hinduism at Dunbarton]
Shipping intelligence. Bendigo Advertiser 17 July 1863 [Mr Wazir Beg surgeon on "Golden Land" from London]
Rev. Wazir Beg [advertisement]. Argus (Melbourne) 24 October 1863 [lately from Scotland, preaching at Hotham]
News of the day. Age (Melbourne) 2 November 1864 [at the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Rev. Wazir Beg MD, health failing, asks to be released from serving the congregations of Port Albert and Tarraville]
Yesterday's Sydney news. Maitland Mercury 31 August 1865 [Rev. Wazir Beg MD inducted as pastor of Chalmers Church]
Marriages. Australian and New Zealand Gazette 14 May 1872 [March 12 at Launceston Rev. Dr. Wazir Beg MD MRCS LLD to Margaret, relict of John Robertson Esq]
Intercolonial telegrams. Argus (Melbourne 11 July 1883 [Rev Dr Wazir Beg resigns pastorate of Chalmers Church due to ill health]
New item. Gippsland Times 21 January 1885 [Rev Dr Wazir Beg died in Sydney, native of Bombay, formerly minister at Alberton]
Occasional notes. Free Church Monthly and Missionary Record (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1 May 1885 [death of Wazir Beg, converted Poona 1846, to Scotland 1853 (sic), preached Free and Uniting churches, to Australia, minister Chalmers Church, Sydney etc] |
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