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| Handasyde Duncan |
| Family
Name: |
Duncan |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
Handasyde |
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| DOB |
13 November 1811
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DOD |
24 February 1878 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Glasgow, Scotland
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Place
of Death: |
Port Adelaide, SA |
| Age
at Death: |
66
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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LRCS Edinburgh 1829
MD Glasgow 1831
MFPS Glasgow 1836
MRCP Edinburgh 1863
MD Adel 1877
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Speciality:
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Occupations: |
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| Spouse:
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Mary Catherine Bowie d.1850 Adelaide, SA
Anne Williams m.1854 Adelaide, SA
Emily Susan Servante m.1867 d.1870 |
| Children: |
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| Voyages:
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"Katherine Stewart Forbes" from London arr. Adelaide 21 March 1839
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| Came
out as: |
Surgeon superintendent |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
1839
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1844
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Off
Register: |
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| Addresses:
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Bath, England
South Australia 1839 (shipping record)
Port Adelaide, SA 1845 onwards (ADB) |
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| Positions
Held: |
Member of Medical Board of SA 1844
Physician and surgeon, Adelaide Hospital (ADB)
Health Officer and Assistant Colonial Surgeon, Port Adelaide (ADB)
Immigration Agent, Port Adelaide 1853 (SA Register)
District Vaccinator, Port Adelaide 1864 (SAGG)
Member of the first SA Board of Education |
| Publications:
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Colony of South Australia. London, 1850 |
| Notes:
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He was an Anglican churchman and a Freemason
He is buried at Adelaide, SA in the old Alberton cemetery, in Williams Street, off Port Road |
| Acknowledgments:
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This record was updated in May 2004 with information supplied by Reece Jennings of North Plympton, SA |
| References: |
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Jennings R. Annotated list of registered medical practitioners South Australia 1844-1918. Adelaide, 1994 [LRCS Ed 1829, MD Glasgow 1831, MFPSG 1836, MD Adel 1877 registered 28 December 1844]
Addison WI. Roll of the graduates of the University of Glasgow, 1898
Duncan A. Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 1599-1850. Glasgow : James Maclehouse and Sons, 1896
Cleland JB. Pioneer medical men in SA. Adelaide : Pioneers' Association of South Australia, [1941?].
Cleland JB. First fifty-two names in the medical register of South Australia Medical Journal Australia 1938; ii: 732-8
Gifford Peter. Hist. Soc. SA 1985; 13: 91-9
College lists
Statton J. Biographical index of South Australians 1836-1885. Marden, S. Aust. : South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, 1986
Haines R. Life and death in the age of sail : the passage to Australia. Sydney : UNSW Press, 2003
Died. South Australian Register 28 September 1850 [Mary Catherine Bowie, wife of Handasyde Duncan]
Yesterday's government gazette. South Australian Register 14 January 1853 [Handasyde Duncan MD, Health Officer at Port Adelaide, to be Immigration Agent]
Married. South Australian Register 10 August 1854 [Handasyde Duncan MD, Immigration Agent, to Anne Williams]
Central Vaccine Board. South Australian Government Gazette 21 April 1864 |
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