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William Byam Wilmot
Family Name: Wilmot  Variant Spellings:  
Given Names: William Byam
DOB 9 April 1805
DOD 8 November 1874 
Place of Birth: Somerset, England
Place of Death: London, England 
Age at Death: 69
School:
University:  
Qualifications: MD Ed 1826
LRCS Ed 1826
LRCP London 1827
Speciality:  
Other Occupations:
Spouse: Matilda Wight m.1832 d. 1854
Harriet Merrick Elderton m. 1855
Children: Luke Byam b. 1833
Maria Byam b.1834
Emilie Matilda b.1836
Frances Mary b.1837
William Frederick b.1839
Voyages: "Coromandel" from Gravesend arr. Sydney 28 August 1840
  • "Jewess" dep. Sydney for Melbourne 15 September 1840
  • "Medway" dep. Melbourne for London 19 April 1854
  • "Ben Nevis" from Liverpool arr. Melbourne October 1855
  • "Northumberland" dep. Melbourne for London 27 October 1857
  • Came out as: Surgeon superintendent 
    Date Settled Aus: 1840
    Date of Departure:  
    First Registered: 1840 NSW No.163
    Off Register: 1863 
    Addresses: Kennington, London, England 1827-1838
  • Melbourne 1840 (Medical Register)
  • Brighton, Vic 1841
  • England 1854-1855 (shipping record)
  • East Melbourne, Vic 1856
  • England 1858 (shipping record)
  • St.Andrew's, Fifeshire, Scotland 1859 (Medical Register)
  • Ryde, Isle of Wight 1863 onwards (Comrie, Observer)
  • Positions Held: Physician South London Dispensary (Comrie)
  • Physician, Royal Infirmary for Childen & Female Orphans' Asylum (Comrie)
  • Assistant Physician, Surrey Dispensary
  • Clerk, lambeth Board of Guardians
  • Coroner, Melbourne 1841-1857
  • Member of the Port Phillip Medical Board 1844
  • Honorary Physician, Melbourne Hospital 1848-1854
  • Publications: The natural and spiritual mind considered in relation to rational education and religious instruction. Melbourne 1850
    Notes: In March 1854 his house in Brighton, Vic was for lease, and was described as follows
  • The house is very capacious and equal to the requirements of a large family
  • The outbuildings consist of coach-house, stables, groom and gardener's dwelling house, open and close sheds, cow sheds, piggeries and large enclosed yards
  • The garden containing nearly five acres, one fully stocked with vines and fruit trees in full bearing
  • He departed for England with his children immediately after the death of his wife, married there and returned the next year
  • Registered Medical Board UK 1859
  • Acknowledgments: This record was updated in May 2008 (twice) and again in November 2008 with information from Christine Laskowski of Essendon, Vic
    References: Medical Board of New South Wales. Minutes 7 September 1840 [registration of William Byan Wilmot, Port Phillip, LRCP London 1827, LRCS Ed 1826, MD Ed 1826]
  • Government notice. Port Phillip Government Gazette 8 October 1844 [formation of the Port Phillip Medical Board, including William Byam Wilmot Esq. MD]
  • Medical register. General Council of Medical Education and Registration UK, 1860 [registered 1859 St. Andrews, Fifeshire MD Ed 1826, MRCP 1827]
  • Kerr's Melbourne Almanac and Port Phillip Directory for 1842
  • Original members of the Port Phillip Medical Association. Australian Medical Journal (Sydney) 1846-7; i: 146
  • Port Phillip Almanac and Directory for 1847 [William Byam Wilmot MD JP coroner Brighton]
  • Comrie File [born Somerset 1805, practised Kennington 1827-1838, Physician London Dispensary etc]
  • Graham HB. Honourable David Elliot Wilkie M.D. : a pioneer of Melbourne. Medical Journal of Australia 1956;i:559
  • 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 [W.Bryan Wilmont]
  • "Garryowen". Disciples of Aesculapius. In his: Chronicles of early Melbourne 1835 to 1852. Melbourne, 1888
  • Reid J. Life of Dr. William Byam Wilmot M.D. (1805-1874) [the source of this reference is lost - Ed]
  • Obituary. Australian Medical Journal 1875;20:32 [old colonist, first coroner of Melbourne, died in England aged 70]
  • Shipping intelligence. Sydney Herald 31 August 1840
  • Shipping intelligence. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 17 September 1840
  • Death of his wife Matilda on 12th March. Melbourne Morning Herald 13 March 1854:4
  • House for lease. Melbourne Morning Herald 23 March 1854:1
  • Shipping intelligence. Argus (Melbourne) 20 April 1854 [Dr. Wilmot and family (six) leaving on "Medway"]
  • Perilous position of the ship "Medway" among icebergs. Courier (Hobart) 6 December 1854 [account by Dr. Wilmot of the voyage home]
  • Married. Melbourne Morning Herald 23 July 1855 [at Kendal, William Bryan Wilmot MD of Melbourne Australia to Harriet Elderton]
  • Deaths. Isle of Wight Observer 14 November 1874 [on the 8th at Wimpole Street, William Byam Wilmot MD MRCPL of Ryde, Isle of Wight, formerly of Melbourne in his 70th year]
  • We find the following... [news]. Argus 13 January 1875 [death at the age of 70 of William B. Wilmot an early colonist 8 November 1874]
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