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Harman John Tarrant
Family Name: Tarrant  Variant Spellings:  
Given Names: Harman John
DOB 1 January 1844
DOD 10 September 1900 
Place of Birth: Ireland
Place of Death: Sydney, NSW 
Age at Death: 56
School:
University:  
Qualifications: LRCS Ireland 1867
LRCP Edinburgh 1867
FRCS Edinburgh 1887
Speciality:  
Other Occupations:
Spouse: Frances Jane Hargreaves m.1869 Paddington NSW
Children: 3 daughters and 3 sons
Voyages: "Rakaia" from Panama via Wellington arr. Sydney 27 October 1868
Came out as: Ship's surgeon 
Date Settled Aus: by 1868
Date of Departure:  
First Registered: 1868 NSW
Off Register:  
Addresses: Sydney, NSW 1868 (shipping record)
  • Kiama, NSW 1869-1879
  • Sydney, NSW 1879 onwards
  • Positions Held: Government Medical Officer, Kiama
  • Honorary Surgeon, Sydney Hospital 1880-1888, 1891-1894 (Watson)
  • MLA NSW 1880-1887 MLC 1890-1896
  • Publications:
    Notes: Financially ruined in the depression of the 1890's - went abroad and later returned
  • Practised with his brother William (MRCSE 1877) at Kiama, Wollongong District. Became MLA for district and went to live in Sydney
  • Nephew of Richard Hayes Tarrant (qv)
  • Acknowledgments:
    References: New South Wales Medical Board. Medical Register 1869 [Herman John Tarrant registered 7 April 1868 LRCSI 867 LRCP Ed 1867]
  • Medical register. General Council of Medical Education and Registration in the UK 1868 [Harman John Tarrant, Athlone, Ireland, registered 21 October 1867 LRCSI 1867 LRCP Ed 1867]
  • Medical Directory (UK) 1873 [Government Medical Officer Kiama]
  • Ford E. Bibliography of Australian Medicine 1790-1900. Sydney, 1976 (Harman John Tarrant)
  • Lee HH. Medical history of the Wollongong district. Medical Journal of Australia 1955; ii: 353-6
  • Watson JF. History of the Sydney Hospital from 1811 to 1911. Sydney, 1911
  • Parliament of NSW website [MLA 1880-7 MLC 1890-6 educated Dublin, London, Paris and Edinburgh; Kiama 1869-1879, then Sydney]
  • Mariners and ships in Australian Waters website [Harman J Tarrant aged 27 (sic), Irish, ship's surgeon on "Rakaia" from Wellington to Sydney 27 October 1868]
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