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| William Byam Wilmot |
| Family
Name: |
Wilmot |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
William Byam |
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| DOB |
9 April 1805
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DOD |
8 November 1874 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Somerset, England
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Place
of Death: |
London, England |
| Age
at Death: |
69
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MD Ed 1826
LRCS Ed 1826
LRCP London 1827
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Speciality:
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Occupations: |
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| Spouse:
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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 |
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| Voyages:
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"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
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| Came
out as: |
Surgeon superintendent |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
1840
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1840 NSW No.163
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Off
Register: |
1863 |
| Addresses:
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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) |
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| 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:
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The natural and spiritual mind considered in relation to rational education and religious instruction. Melbourne 1850 |
| Notes:
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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:
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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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