| Godfrey Howitt |
| Family
Name: |
Howitt |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
Godfrey |
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| DOB |
8 October 1800
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DOD |
3 December 1873 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Heanor, Derbyshire, England
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Place
of Death: |
Caulfield, Vic |
| Age
at Death: |
73
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MD Edinburgh 1824
MD Melb (aeg) 1857
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Speciality:
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| Other
Occupations: |
Pastoralist
Explorer
Anthropologist
Botanist
Entomologist |
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| Spouse:
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Phoebe Blackwell m.1831 Castle Donington, England |
| Children: |
William Godfrey (qv) a doctor
He was survived by three sons and a daughter (ADB) |
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| Voyages:
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"Lord Goderich" from London arr. Launceston 7 February 1840
"Charlotte" from Launceston arr. Melbourne 13 June 1840
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| Came
out as: |
Passenger |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
1840
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1842 NSW
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Off
Register: |
1874 |
| Addresses:
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Leicester,England (ADB)
Nottingham, England (ADB)
Port Phillip 1840 (shipping record) |
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| Positions
Held: |
Honorary Physician to the General Hospital and City Infirmary in Nottingham 1831-1839 approx.
Honorary Physician at Melbourne Hospital 1847
Member of the Medical Board of Victoria
For other positions see ADB |
| Publications:
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Nottinghamshire Flora, 1839 |
| Notes:
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ADB has qualification MD Ed 1830
ADB states arrived PP on "Lord Goderich" in April whereas published shipping record suggests he disembarked at Launceston and arrived PP by "Charlotte" in June
By 1845 owned land in Melbourne and at Yea, Cape Schanck and Caulfield (ADB) |
| Acknowledgments:
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| References: |
Australian Dictionary of Biography
New South Wales Medical Board. Minutes 30 May 1842 [registration of Godfrey Howitt MD Edinburgh 2 August 1824]
Melbourne Medical Board. Port Phillip Government Gazette 28 January 1845 [Godrey Howitt MD on list of legally qualified practitioners]
Medical Board of Victoria. Medical Register 1863 [Godfrey Howitt Melbourne, MD Edinburgh 1824, MD Melb (aeg) 1857]
Port Phillip Almanac and Directory for 1847
Original members of the Port Phillip Medical Association. Australian Medical Journal (Sydney) 1846-7;i:146
Medical Board of Victoria. Medical Register 1863 [Godfrey Howitt Melbourne, MD Edinburgh 1824, MD Melb (aeg) 1857]
Graduates in medicine in the University of Edinburgh 1705-1866. Edinburgh, 1867 [Godfrey Howitt 1824 thesis on urinary calculi]
Graham HB. Happenings of the now long past. Medical Journal of Australia 1952;ii:216
Howitt M. Victorian Historical Magazine 1913;3:1-24
Deaths. Australian Medical Journal 1873; 18: 380 [on 3 December at Caulfield Godfrey Howitt MD Ed aged 73 years]
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
Pearn J, Cobcroft M. Fevers and frontiers. Brisbane, 1990
Pearn J. Medicine and botany. Brisbane, 1990
University of Melbourne Medical School Jubilee 1914. Melbourne, 1914
Pearn J. Doctor in the garden. Brisbane, 2001
Cleland JB. Naturalist in medicine with particular reference to Australia. Medical Journal of Australia 1950;1:549-63
Launceston shipping list. Launceston Examiner 13 February 1840 [Dr. Howitt, wife, 4 children and servant on "Lord Goderich" from London]
Shipping intelligence. Port Phillip Gazette 11 April 1840 [arrival of "Lord Goderich" from Launceston, Howitt family not listed among passengers]
Shipping intelligence. Port Phillip Gazette 17 June 1840 [Dr. Howitt, lady and four children on "Charlotte" from Launceston] |
| Portraits:
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State Library of Victoria, ADB
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last updated 14-01-2020
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