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| Thomas Embling |
| Family
Name: |
Embling |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
Thomas |
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| DOB |
26 August 1814
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DOD |
17 January 1893 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Oxford, England
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Place
of Death: |
Hawthorn, Vic |
| Age
at Death: |
78
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MRCS London 1837
LSA 1838
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Speciality:
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Psychiatrist |
| Other
Occupations: |
Politician
Parliamentarian
JP |
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| Spouse:
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Jane Webb Chinnock m.1839 |
| Children: |
3 sons
4 daughters |
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| Voyages:
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"Duke of Wellington" from Plymouth arr. Adelaide 16 February 1851
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| Came
out as: |
Ship's surgeon |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
1851
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1852 Vic
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Off
Register: |
1892 |
| Addresses:
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London, England 1850 (Medical Directory)
Adelaide, SA 1851 (shipping record)
Wimmera District, Vic 1851 (Argus)
Melbourne, Vic 1851
Fitzroy, Vic 1852, 1868
Warrnambool, Vic 1869-1870 (Medical Register)
Castlemaine, Vic 1871-1873 (Medical Register)
Kew, Vic 1875-1880 (Medical Register)
Hawthorn, Vic 1883 onwards (Bruck) |
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| Positions
Held: |
Resident Medical Officer, Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum 1852 (ADB)
MLC Victoria 1855
MLA Victoria 1856-1861, 1866-1867 (obituary AMG) |
| Publications:
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Horsham or the Wimmera [letter]. Argus (Melbourne) 22 April 1851 [arrived from London by invitation to practise as a surgeon on the Wimmera] |
| Notes:
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Private practice at Gore St, Fitzroy, where helped the poor (ADB)
Is credited with coining the slogan 'Eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest' (ADB)
Emblingia calceoflora named after him
Member, Wesleyan Missionary Society, Melbourne (Age)
Father of William Henry Embling (qv) |
| Acknowledgments:
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Updated SD research at NLA December 2004; and further updated in September 2008 with information from the Boroondara Cemetery records supplied by Gail White |
| References: |
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Government notice. Victoria Government Gazette 28 January 1852 [Thomas Embling on list of legally qualified medical practitioners]
Medical Board of Victoria. Register of Medical Practitioners for 1863 [Thomas Embling, Kew, MRCS 1837 LSA 1838]
Bruck L. Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook, 1883-1892 [at Hawthorn]
Holmes H.I. Notes on Warrnambool doctors (typescript)
Warrnambool AIGS (Family History Group) list
Warrnambool death register list
Pearn J. Medicine and Botany. Brisbane, 1990
Pearn J. Doctor in the garden. Brisbane, 2001
Pearn J. Forced emigration, favourable outcomes. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2001;25(5):458-63
Benn KM. Moral vs medical controversy. Medical Journal of Australia 1957; i: 126
Obituary. Australasian Medical Gazette 1893; 12: 66
Obituary. Australian Medical Journal 1893; NS 15: 96
Shipping intelligence. South Australian Register 17 January 1851 [Mr. Embling, surgeon, Mrs. Embling, female servant and two children on "Duke of Wellington" from London]
Missions to the heathen. Age 14 November 1854 [T. Embling Esq MD at meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society] |
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| Image 1: |
Monument to Thomas Embling in the Boroondara (Kew) Cemetery, courtesy of Gail White |
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last updated 24-04-2019
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