| Walter Lindesay Richardson |
| Family
Name: |
Richardson |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
Walter Lindesay |
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| DOB |
1826
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DOD |
1 August 1879 |
| Place
of Birth: |
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Place
of Death: |
Koroit, Victoria |
| Age
at Death: |
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MD Edin 1849
LRCS Edin 1849
MD Melb (aeg) 1866
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Speciality:
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| Other
Occupations: |
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| Spouse:
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Mary Bailey m. Geelong, Vic, 27 August 1855 |
| Children: |
Ethel Florence Lindesay (Henry Handel) Richardson |
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| Voyages:
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"Mount Stuart Elphinstone" from Plymouth arr. Melbourne 5 July 1852
"British Prince" from Liverpool arr. Melbourne 26 May 1869
"Atrato" dep. Melbourne for England 18 April 1873
"Nubia" from England arr. Melbourne 22 August 1874
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| Came
out as: |
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| Date
Settled Aus: |
1852
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1856 Vic
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Off
Register: |
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| Addresses:
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Victoria 1852 (shipping record)
Ballarat 1853-1867 (Steele)
Europe 1868
Melbourne 1869-1873
Grand Tour 1873-1874
Hawthorn, Vic 1874-1876
Chiltern, Vic 1876-1877
Queenscliff, Vic 1877-1878
Melbourne 1878-1879
Koroit, Vic 1879 |
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| Positions
Held: |
Acting Health Officer and Acting Tide Surveyor, Queenscliff 1877 |
| Publications:
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Richardson WL: On hydatids of the uterus. Aust Med J 1862;7:9-11.
Richardson WL: Some further remarks on the diarrhoea and dysentry of this colony. Aust Med J 1863;8:83-7.
Richardson WL: On flooding after delivery. Med Record of Aust 1863;3:1
Richardson WL: On a case of empyema. Aust Med J 1864;9:36-7.
Richardson WL: A fatal case of cholera. Aust Med J 1864;9:199.
Richardson WL: A contribution to the statistics of midwifery. Med Surg Rev 1864;2:37.
Richardson WL: Notes on some of the diseases prevalent in Victoria. Edinb Med J 1867;13:525.
Richardson WL: A letter from home. Aust Med J 1867;12:236-3, 274-8, 373-6 |
| Notes:
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He was a storekeeper at Ballarat 1853-1855 and in medical practice there from 1856 (Steele)
He amassed a small fortune from his medical practices in Ballarat and Melbourne but found himself penniless in 1874 (ADB)
The daughter who was later to write his fictionalised biography, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (Henry Handel) was born in Melbourne 3 January 1870
He suffered from early onset dementia, attributed by some modern biographers to general paralysis of the insane (caused by syphilis)
After a period spent at Cremorne Private Asylum and Yarra Bend Asylum in 1878, he died in the care of his wife |
| Acknowledgments:
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| References: |
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Bowden KM. Goldrush doctors at Ballarat. Balwyn, Vic, 1977
Steele B. Walter Lindesay Richardson MD - a Victorian seeker. North Melbourne, 2013
Webby E, Sykes G. Walter and Mary : the letters of Walter and Mary Richardson. Melbourne University Press, 2000
Stoller A, Emmerson RH. The fortunes of Walter Lindesay Richardson. Meanjin Q 1970 March: 21-33
Clark A. Henry Handel Richardson. Sydney, 1990
Richardson, HH. Fortunes of Richard Mahony. 3 vols. London 1917-1929
Forster FM. Walter Lindesay Richardson 1826-1879 as obstetrician. In: Festschrift for Kenneth Fitzpatrick Russell. Melbourne, 1978:143-158
Draper BM. Richard Mahony - the misfortunes of younger onset dementia. MJA 2009;190:94-5
Acting health officer. Victorian Government Gazette 19 October 1877
Obituary. Australian Medical Journal 1879;1NS: 447 |
| Portraits:
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| Links
to Pictures: |
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| Other
Links: |
Fortunes of Richard Mahoney http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/p00041 |
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last updated 11-02-2021
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