 |
Print Friendly Version
| Lovell Byass |
| Family
Name: |
Byass |
Variant
Spellings: |
|
| Given
Names: |
Lovell |
|
| DOB |
1 June 1811
|
DOD |
6 August 1874 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Worthing, Sussex, England
|
Place
of Death: |
Hamilton, Victoria |
| Age
at Death: |
63
|
|
| School:
|
|
University:
|
|
| Qualifications:
|
|
Speciality:
|
|
| Other
Occupations: |
Pastoralist |
|
| Spouse:
|
Rebecca Halstead m.1836 |
| Children: |
Lovel d.1838 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island
Anna-Maria Pecknell b.1839
John Lovell b.1841
Peter George b.1844
William Charles b.1847 |
|
| Voyages:
|
"Eden" from London arr. Port Adelaide 24 June 1838
Probably "Eden" from Port Adelaide arr. Nepean Bay 14 October 1838
"Socrates" from SA arr. Portland 31 January 1839
|
| Came
out as: |
Surgeon superintendent |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
1836
|
Date
of Departure: |
|
| First
Registered: |
1862
|
Off
Register: |
1863 |
| Addresses:
|
London, England 1836 (where married)
Adelaide, SA 1838 (shipping record)
Kangaroo Island, SA 1838-1839 (shipping records)
Portland, Vic 1838 (shipping record etc)
Wannon River, Vic 1843-1848 (Learmonth, Portland Guardian)
Portland 1848 (Learmonth)
Warrnambool, Vic 1853 (Learmonth, Warrnambool Examiner)
Port MacDonnell, SA (Waymouth)
Ballarat, Vic 1863 (Medical Register)
Merino, Vic 1866 (AMJ)
Hamilton, Vic 1872-1874 |
|
| Positions
Held: |
|
| Publications:
|
Byass L. Poisoning by Atropa Australian Medical Journal 1857;2:244 |
| Notes:
|
His father was Dr. John Byass of Arundel, Sussex, England (Waymouth)
First doctor at Portland, Victoria
He came from the same village in Sussex as the Hentys (Worthing)
He was unsuccessful as a pastoralist on the Wannon and returned to medical practice
He took over the practice of Dr. Isaac Corney (qv) in Banyan Street Warrnambool in 1854. In distressed circumstances November 1856
Member of Mechanics Institutes, Portland Emigration Society, Anglican Church committees, school boards, chess and cricket clubs
Was medically trained but unqualified (hence registered under section XIV) |
| Acknowledgments:
|
This record was updated in May 2005 with information supplied by Rob Byass of Warrnambool, Vic and with information from Ann Tovell's card index to the early Australian Medical Journals |
| References: |
Medical Board of Victoria. Register of Medical Practitioners for 1863 [Lovell Byass, Ballarat, registered under section XIV]
Cleland JB. First fifty-two names in the medical register of South Australia Medical Journal Australia 1938; ii: 732-8
Lendon AA. SAA Prg/128/12/11 [father and grandfather doctors, born Worthing, married 1834, with SA Company 1837, to Portland, Vic 1838 etc]
Howard GT. Port Phillip's early doctors 1835-1839. Medical Journal of Australia 1934;i:361-6
Hopton AJ. List of registered and unregistered medical practitioners at Port Phillip between 1835 and 1851. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 1950;36:376-9
Learmonth N. The Portland Bay settlement. Melbourne, 1934 [born Worthing 1 June 1811, to Kangaroo Island, then Portand 1839, Wannon 1844 etc]
Waymouth R. Dr. Lovell Byass 1811-1874. Ballarat and District Genealogical Society website [lists his parents, children etc]
Warrnambool AIGS (Family History Group) list
Medical Society of Victoria archives file held at Brownless Medical Library, University of Melbourne
Cummings D. Pioneers and settlers bound for South Australia [website] [Lovell Byass b.1811 Arundel, Sussex and wife Rebecca nee Halstead on "Eden" from London]
Syme MA. Shipping arrivals and departures Victorian ports 1798 - 1845. Melbourne, 1984 [by "Socrates" to Portland arr. 31 January 1839]
Total wreck of the barque "Children". Colonial Times (Hobart) 26 February 1839 [survivors attended at Portland by surgeon on "Socrates" from Kangaroo Island]
Vaccination [advertisement]. Portland Guardian 26 November 1842 [available from Dr. Byass]
Moving. Portland Guardian 18 November 1843
Thomas Best, blacksmith, opening shop on his property. Portland Guardian 13 October 1848
President Warrnambool Cricket Club 1853/54. Warrnambool Examiner date unknown
Auction of household effects. Warrnambool Examiner 4 November 1856
Mrs Byass teaching pianoforte, harp, French, Italian. Warrnambool Examiner December 1856
To correspondents. Aust Med J 1857;2:312 [Mr. Byass, Warrnambool]
Vaccinator at Merino. Australian Medical Journal 1866:216
Obituary. Australian Medical Journal 1874:286 [of Casterton, brother Robert Byass, producer of bottled ale and porter]
Obituary. Warrnambool Examiner, September 1874 |
| Portraits:
|
State Library of Queensland
|
| Links
to Pictures: |
|
| Other
Links: |
|
|
last updated 04-01-2023
|
|
|
|
