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| Harry Leigh Atkinson |
| Family
Name: |
Atkinson |
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Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
Harry Leigh |
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| DOB |
1832 approx.
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DOD |
14 July 1915 |
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of Birth: |
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Place
of Death: |
Bendigo, Victoria |
| Age
at Death: |
83
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| Qualifications:
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MRCS 1853
LSA 1853
MB Melb 1863 (SR)
MD Melb 1863
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| Spouse:
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Lucy d.1862 Bendigo, Vic
Christiana Morton m.1868 |
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| Came
out as: |
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| Date
Settled Aus: |
1859
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Date
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| First
Registered: |
1860 Vic
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| Addresses:
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Weaverthorpe, Malton, Yorkshire, England 1853 (College Lists)
York, England 1859 (UK Medical Register)
Sandhurst, Vic 1862, 1883 (Medical Directory, Bruck) |
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| Positions
Held: |
Resident Medical Officer Melbourne Benevolent Asylum (Gibbney and Smith)
Surgeon Superintendent, Bendigo General Hospital 1862 (Medical Directory) |
| Publications:
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He published about 20 articles on various medical topics in the Australian Medical Journal in the 1860s and 1870s. A list is available from the AMPI editor |
| Notes:
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Supposed to be the largest landowner in Victoria at his death (Gibbney and Smith)
Married five times (Gibbney and Smith)
His will was the subject of extensive litigation |
| Acknowledgments:
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This record was updated in May 2004 with information from Ann Tovell's card index to the early Australian medical journals; and further updated in August 2008 with information from Christine Laskowski of Essendon, Vic |
| References: |
Legally qualified medical practitioners. Victoria Government Gazette 15 January 1861 [Harry Leigh Atkinson listed]
Medical Board of Victoria. Register of Medical Practitioners for 1863 [Harry Leigh Atkinson, Melbourne, MRCSE 1853 LSA 1853 registered 6 February 1860]
Medical register. General Council of Medical Education and Registration UK 1860 [Harry Leigh Atkinson, York, MRCE 1853 LSA 1853]
Gibbney HJ, Smith AG. Biographical register 1788-1939. Canberra, 1987
O'Donohue AM. Harry Leigh Atkinson MD. Bendigo, 2002
Roll of Graduates. In: University of Melbourne : Medical School Jubilee. Melbourne, 1914
Cusack F. Candles in the dark. Melbourne, 1984
Medical news. Medical Times and Gazette 1853:;6:436 [Harry Leigh Atkinson MRCS LSA Weaverthorpe, Malton, Yorkshire]
Australian Medical Journal 1861:255;1862:133 [at Bendigo Hospital
Deaths. Australian Medical Journal 1862:240 [death of his wife Lucy 17 April 1862 at Sandhurst]
Marriage. Australian Medical Journal 1868:256 [to Christiana Morton 1 August 1868 at Sandhurst
Vaccinator at Sandhurst Australian Medical Journal 1869:93
Birth. Australian Medical Journal 1869:292 [son 11 August 1869 at View Point, Sandhurst]
Chased by lunatic at Sandhurst. Australian Medical Journal 1873:63
Death. Australian Medical Journal 1877:64 [wife 3 February 1877 at Sandhurst]
Deaths. Argus (Melbourne) 15 July 1915 [Harry Leigh Atkinson a colonist of 56 years aged 83 years] |
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