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| George Bennett |
| Family
Name: |
Bennett |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
George |
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| DOB |
31 January 1804
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DOD |
29 September 1893 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Plymouth, England
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Place
of Death: |
Sydney, NSW |
| Age
at Death: |
89
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MRCS England 1828
MD Glasgow 1859
FRCS 1859
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Speciality:
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| Other
Occupations: |
Naturalist
Traveller
Anthropologist
Writer |
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| Spouse:
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Julia Ludavina Cameron m.1835 suicide 1846 Sydney NSW
? second wife
Sarah Adcock |
| Children: |
George Frederick
William
Elizabeth
Alice
Edith
Frederick (by second wife) |
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| Voyages:
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? "Sophia" from Dublin arr. Sydney 17 January 1829
"Sophia" dep. Sydney for Tonga 16 March 1829
? "Surry" from London arr. Sydney 21 August 1831
"Florentia" from London arr. Sydney 29 August 1835
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| Came
out as: |
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| Date
Settled Aus: |
1835
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1839 NSW No. 9
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Off
Register: |
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| Addresses:
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Sydney, NSW 1835 onwards |
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| Positions
Held: |
Consultant Physician, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney 1870-1886 |
| Publications:
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Account of the Islands of Erromanga and Tanna, New Hebrides. Sydney Herald 27 December 1832 [author visited there on "Sophia" in August 1829]
Wanderings in New South Wales etc. London, 1834
Numerous publications Lancet etc and see Medical Directory 1873 and Ford |
| Notes:
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First went to sea at 15 (ADB)
After qualifying in 1828 travelled extensively in the Pacific, visiting NSW 1829 and 1832 (ADB)
ADB states returned to Australia 1836 (should be 1835) (shipping record)
Married three times (ADB)
Eupomotia bennettii and Flindersia bennettii named after him |
| Acknowledgments:
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This record was updated in December 2009 with information from Max Coleman |
| References: |
Australian Dictionary of Biography
New South Wales Medical Board. Minutes 7 January 1839 [registration of George Bennett of Sydney MRCSL 7 March 1828]
Medical Directory (UK) 1873 [Woolloomooloo, MD Glasgow 1859 etc]
Bruck L. Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook, 1883 [Woolloomooloo MRCSE FRCS MD Glasgow, Consultant Physician St. Vincent's Hospital, FLS, FZS]
Plarr's lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. RCS website, 2016
Addison WI. Roll of the graduates of the University of Glasgow 1727 to l897. Glasgow, 1898 [Wooloomooloo, Sydney NSW, MRCS 1828, FRCS 1859, FLS, b. Plymouth 31 January 1804, died 29 September 1893
Coppleson VM. Life and times of Dr.George Bennett. Medical Journal of Australia 1955;ii:273-8 [to Australia, NZ, New Hebrides 1828-1831, from London arr. NSW 25 August 1832]
Ford E. Bibliography of Australian Medicine 1790-1900. Sydney : Sydney University Press, 1976
Pearn J, Cobcroft M. Fevers & Frontiers. Brisbane : Amphion Press, 1990
Pearn J. Medicine and Botany. Brisbane : Amphion Press, 1990
Pearn J. Doctor in the garden. Brisbane : Amphion Press, 2001
Pearn J. Around the rim : the role of surgeons in discovery and research in the Pacific rim. Parts 1 and 2. Aust N Z J Surg 1994;64:38-44, 121-4
Lindstrom L. Sophia Elau, Ungka the gibbon, and the pearly nautilus. Journal of Pacific History, June 1998: 5-27 [George Bennett passenger on "Sophia" with convicts from Dublin to Sydney 1828-1829]
Cleland JB. Naturalist in medicine with particular reference to Australia. Medical Journal of Australia 1950;1:549-63
Shineberg D. They came for sandalwood. UQePress no date [George Bennett surgeon on "Sophia" arr. Tonga 27 July 1829]
Young J.A et al (eds) Centenary book of the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine. Sydney University Press, 1984
St. Vincent's Hospital annual reports
Medical Society of Victoria archives file held at Brownless Medical Library, University of Melbourne
Shipping intelligence. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 17 March 1829 [departure of "Sophia" for the Society and Sandwich Islands]
Shipping intelligence. Sydney Herald 22 August 1831 [Dr Bennett on "Surry" from London and Hobart]
Shipping intelligence. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 17 July 1832 [arrival of "Sophia" from Liverpool] [was he on it?]
Shipping intelligence. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 1 August 1835 [George Bennett Esq surgeon on "Florentia" rom London]
Married. Sydney Herald 30 November 1835 [George Bennett F.L.S., Surgeon, to Miss Julia Ludavina Cameron]
Affecting suicide. Bell's Life in Sydney 20 June 1846 [inquest on death of Julia Ann Ludivinia (sic) Bennett, wife of George Bennett, who committed suicide with prussic acid] |
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