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| John Theophilus Heeley |
| Family
Name: |
Heeley |
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| Given
Names: |
John Theophilus |
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| DOB |
27 January 1830
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DOD |
23 June 1910 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Birmingham, England
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| Age
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80
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LSA 1858
LRCP 1860
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| Date
Settled Aus: |
by 1864
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| First
Registered: |
1864 Vic No. 446
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| Addresses:
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New Zealand 1862
Melbourne, Vic 1864
Seymour, Vic 1873
Young, NSW 1883 |
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| Positions
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JP, GMO, PV, Surgeon Darling District Hospital and Gaol.
Medical Officer, Melbourne to Wodonga Railway |
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Educated in the South of France and at a college in England.
As medical student - Crimea, appointed to Scutar Hospital whre he was one of the first to administer chlorform.
Received Crimea Medal with clasp. Complete medical studies - went to Nevade USA to make fortune in silver nothing came of it. Returned to England. Turned thought to squatting in 1862 - New Zealand.
Went to Victoria and started medical practice at Seymour. There in great floods of 1870. (rescued by boat after spending 24 hours in his loft). |
| Acknowledgments:
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| References: |
Bruck L. Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook, 1883
Obituary. Australasian Medical Gazette 1910;29:398
Wright St.Clair (unspecified reference on NZ doctors)
New South Wales Medical Board. Register of Medical Practitioners for 1869
Medical directory for 1873, and general medical register. London : Churchill, 1873
Victorian Government Gazette 1864:1544 |
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