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| John Livingstone Learmonth |
| Family
Name: |
Learmonth |
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| Given
Names: |
John Livingstone |
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| DOB |
1812
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DOD |
1871 |
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MD Ed 1834
LRCS Ed 1834
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Speciality:
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Pastoralist |
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| Spouse:
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Anna Alicia MacWhirter m.1837 Hobart Town, VDL |
| Children: |
Three children 1848 |
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| Voyages:
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"Perthshire" from Leith arr. Hobart 20 October 1835
"Flying Fish" from Hobart arr. Melbourne 6 October 1843
Unknown voyage to Britain 1846 approx.
"Stag" from London arr. Port Phillip 23 January 1848 (with wife and three children)
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| Came
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| Date
Settled Aus: |
1835
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| First
Registered: |
1840 VDL
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| Addresses:
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VDL 1835 (shipping record)
Launceston, VDL 1837 (HT Courier)
Hobart, VDL 1840, 1841 (Courier)
Geelong, Port Phillip 1846
Britain 1846-1847 approx
Port Phillip 1848 (shipping record)
London, England 1871 (where died) |
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One of several brothers who were in the forefront of merino breeders
Along with Drs Thomson and Forster Shaw (qqv), he was a member of the first Committee of the Bible Society in Geelong, established 1846
His movements are difficult to trace. He was in VDL at first, later in the Geelong and Ballarat districts, making two (?) extended trips to Britain and finally returning to live in London |
| Acknowledgments:
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| References: |
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Mackay EA. Medical men as pastoral pioneers. Medical Journal of Australia 1934;ii:476-84
Graham HB. Happenings of the now long past. Medical Journal of Australia 1952;ii:213-47
Hughes IA. Passengers to Port Phillip from England and Ireland 1843-8 (pub 1981)
Tasmania Archives.
Kiddle M. Men of Yesterday. Carlton 1961
Sayers CE. Letters from Victorian Pioneers Melbourne, 1969
Thompson AT. Australia and the Bible. London, 1935
Trade and shipping. Hobart Town 23 October 1835 [J. Learmonth on "Perthshire" from Leith]
Married. Hobart Town Courier 27 January 1837 [John Learmonth Esq MD of Launceston to Anna Alicia, daughter of John MacWhirter Esq MD etc]
Gazette. Hobart Town Courier 19 June 1840 [T. (sic) Learmonth Esq appointed member of the Court of Medical Examiners]
Domestic calamity. Courier (Hobart) 17 November 1840
Classified advertising. Courier (Hobart, Tas.) 19 February 1841
Shipping intelligence. Port Phillip Gazette 7 October 1843 [Dr. and Mrs Learmonth and four children on "Flying Fish" from Hobart]
Port Phillip. Sydney Morning Herald 2 February 1848 [Dr. Learmonth wife and three children]
Deaths. Sydney Morning Herald 18 May 1871 [at London, John Livingstone Learmonth formerly of Tasmania, eldest son of Thomas Livingstone Learmonth. Stirlingshire] |
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