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DAVIE, Thomas

Atlas II 1802 (arrived 30 October 1802)

 

  

DAVIES, Thomas  R.N. * 7 August 1809

 

Thomas Davies was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ship Henry  in 1823 and the Asia (111) in 1825.

The Henry departed London 28th April 1823 and arrived in Port Jackson 26th August 1823. The Asia departed Portsmouth on 5th January 1825 and arrived in Port Jackson on 29 April 1825.

Thomas Davies was appointed Surgeon to the Astraea at Falmouth on 20 April 1832.

 

 

  

DAVIS, Thomas

 

Medway 1821

 

 

  

DAVISON, J.

 

Lord Auckland 1853

 

 

 
DEAS, David R.N.* 7 June 1828

 

David Deas was on the List of Surgeons of the Royal Navy who were fit for service in 1841. He was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the Lord Petra in 1843 (to VDL)

He is listed in the Medical Register of 1865 - Inspector General of Hospital and Fleets R.N., Qualifications Lic. Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh 1827.

 

 

 
DEWAR, Alexander R.N., *14 January 1805
 Alexander Dewar was on the List of Medical Officer who had served at War. He was Surgeon of the Leonidas at the taking of the Islands of Cephalonia and Maura.

Alexander Dewar was employed as surgeon on the convict ship Chapman in 1817. There was a mutiny on the Chapman during the voyage during which convicts were killed.

 ........All three were later acquitted of the charge.

The following details may be that of Alexander Dewar of the Chapman:

At Muircote near Alloa, on the 4th August, Alexander Dewar Ed., M.D to Margaret Rosamond Geddes, fourth daughter of William Geddes Esq. - Caldedonia Mercury 8 August 1818

University of Edinburgh - On Saturday the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh conferred the degree of Doctor in Medicin on the followin gentlemen after having gone through the appointed examinations and publicly defended their inaugural dissertations - Among the 103 names was that of Alexander Dewar (vulneribus pugna in navali apud Algeriuni proximae facta acceptis) Caledonia Mercury 8 August 1818

He was on the List of Surgeons of the Royal Navy unfit for service in 1841

Alexander Dewar died on 31st September at Lower road Islington. Lately of Sunning Hill, Berks, Age 80 years (The Time 5 October 1859

 

  

DICKSON, James

 

Countess of Harcourt 1824 

Woodford 1826 (VDL)

Florentia 1828 

Vittoria 1829 

Norfolk 1829

James Dickson(b) (*21 October 1811) was on the List of Surgeons of the Royal Navy fit for service in 1841. Possibly this James Dickson?

 

 

 
DICKSON, Robert  R.N., *17 August 1815

 

Robert Dickson was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ship Java in 1833

Entry in the Medical Register 1865 for Robert Dickson -  Residence 16 Hertford Street, Mayfair, London. Qualifications M.D. University Edinburgh 1826 Fellow Royal College Physicians London 1855.

 

 

DOBIE, John * 14 August 1820

 

John Dobie was appointed to the ship Montagu as assistant-surgeon in 1813 (27)

He was appointed Assistant-Surgeon on the Leander in 1819

He was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ships Princess Charlotte in 1824 and the Lady Nugent in 1837. He kept a medical journal for the Lady Nugent between 18 June and 5 December 1837.

The Hobart Town Crier reported on 6th December 1839 that Mr. Surgeon Dobie had retired from the appointment of Health Officer, which he had held for the last twelve months, intending to turn his attention to agricultural and pastoral pursuits. Upon his retirement a dinner was given to him by his friends at the Club house, at which Captain King M.C. presided. The Governor has appointed Mr. Dobie a Magistrate of the territory. Mr. Dobie has made three voyages to this colony; two as Surgeon of convict ships and one in charge of the immigrant ship Duncan. which arrived in June 1838. He was one of the Surgeons sent home by Sir R. Bourke, for the purpose of selecting and bringing out their own immigrants. Mr. Arthur Savage, a Naval Surgeon, who came out to this colony in July 1838, as Superintendent of the immigrant ship Magistrate (having previously made three voyages as Surgeon of convict ships) has been appointed to succeed Mr. Dobie.

John Dobie settled in the Clarence River district but returned to England where he died in 1866

Read his biography at the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

 

 

 

 
DOBIE, Robert  R.N., *24 October 1814

 

Robert Dobie was appointed surgeon to the Dominica in 1814 and the Wasp under Captain John Fisher in 1814 - 1815.

In Nov. 1814 Lieutenant Benjamin Andrews joined the Wasp on the Halifax station, where he continued until Sept. 1815. (29) Robert Dobie may also have been at Halifax at this time.

 

He was on the List of Medical Officers who had served at War. He was officially noticed for his services when Surgeon of the Melpomene at the capture of Washington.

Robert Dobie was appointed to the Tagus in 1817.... and to the Vanguard in March 1836. The Vanguard carried 80 guns and 630 men.

He was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ship Garland Grove in 1841 (to VDL) and the Ratcliffe in 1845 (also to VDL)

Robert Dobie died on 5th November 1873 at his residence Houghton-place, Ampthill square aged 90. (The Standard 14 November 1873) He was survived by his widow Julia Ann Dobie. He died a very wealthy man as his personal effects were listed as under £30,000 (28)

 

 

  

DONNELLY, Samuel

 

Samuel Donnelly was employed as surgeon on the St. Vincent to Hobart in 1850 and to Adelaide to Hobart in 1855

 

 

 
DONNELLY, William R.N., *13 September 1822

 

William Donnelly was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the Emperor Alexander  in1833

 

 

  

DONNET, James John Louis (*1845)

 

In May 1838 James John Louis Donnet of Gibraltar was included in the list of gentlemen to whom the Court of Examiners of the Apothecaries' Hall granted certificates of qualifications

Assistant Surgeon James Donnet of the Greenwich Hospital was appointed to the rank of surgeon in December 1845 (148)

He was appointed Surgeon Superintendent of the William Jardine convict ship in 1852 (147).  The William Jardine departed Plymouth 3 May 1852 and arrived in Western Australia 1st August 1852.

In 1867 he was promoted to the rank of deputy inspector general of Hospitals and Fleets in her majesty's fleet. (149)

He was appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets in 1870 (The Lancet)

In 1875 he was promoted to the rank of Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleets. (150)

On 7 February 1893 he was appointed to be Hon. Physician to Her Majesty, (151)

 In the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

In the 1901 Census he gave his age as 85 years and birth place Gibraltar. He resided at 5 Park Road Bognor, Sussex with his wife Eliza age 70. They employed two servants.

He died on 11 January 1905 in Sussex. His Obituary was published in the London Times on 12 January 1905...... Sir James John Louis Donnet K.C.B., Inspector-General of Fleets and Hospitals R.N., retired, died yesterday at the residence of his daughter at Bognor, in his 89th year.

Sir James Donnet was the son of Surgeon Henry Donnet R.N., by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John Moore of Dublin, Philadelphia, and Gibraltar. He was educated in Paris, Edinburgh, and London and joined the Navy as an assistant surgeon in 1840. In this rank he was present in the Vesuvius at the operations on the coast of Syria and at the siege and fall of St. Jean D'Acre, and he had charge of the R.M. Hospital at Acre after the fall of that place. Four years later he acted as secretary to the diplomatic mission sent by the British government to the Sultan of Morocco, and in 1848 having been promoted surgeon in 1845, he was in medical charge at the successful capture and destruction of the town of Ngunduvan in Viti Levu, Fiji. His next notable service was with the Arctic expedition of 1850 - 51, in the Assistance, when the first footprints of Franklin were discovered, and then, three years later, as senior medical officer of the flagship President, during the Russian war.

He was promoted to the rank of deputy inspector general in 1867 and to that of inspector general in 1875 and in those ranks before his before his retirement in 1876 he filled many important posts in or connected with the medical service of the Navy. He was in administrative and executive charge of Port Royal Hospital, Jamaica during the epidemics of yellow fever of 1867 and 1869; principal officer in charge of the medical wards of the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, during the epidemics of smallpox and enteric fever, and cases of fever and dysentery after the Ashanti war of 1873-4 and in administrative and executive charge of the Royal Naval Hospital, Malta in 1874.

He was a member of the committee appointed in 1876 to choose a site for the Naval Cadets College, and also of that formed to inquire into the causes of the outbreak of scurvy in the Arctic expedition under Sir George Nares. At the time of his death Sir James Donnet was an honorary physician to the King. Sir James married in 1852 Eliza (who died in 1903), daughter of Mr. James Meyer.

 

  

DONOGHOE, Anthony  R.N., *6 September 1825

 

Assistant surgeons Anthony Donoghoe and James Osborne were appointed to the Glasgow in July 1821 (30)

Anthony Donoghoe was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ships City of Edinburgh in 1832 the Parmelia  in 1834, the Hive in 1835 and the Calcutta in 1837.

On the night of Thursday 10th December 1835, the Hive ran aground on a sandy beach south of Jervis Bay and was wrecked. Find out more about the wreck of the Hive.

In 1842-43 Anthony Donoghoe was appointed to the Dido

He died on the 16 October 1847 in Killeshandra (31)

 

  

DONOVAN, James (M.D.) *15 April 1835

 

James Donovan was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ships Duncan in 1841 and the Rajah in 1841 (VDL)

James Donovan was on the Navy List of Officers fit for service in 1842.

He is listed in the Medical Register of 1865 - Residence Killarney Co. Kerry. Qualifications M.B. University Dublin 1827. Member Royal College Surgeons England 1827.

 

 

 
DORKE, Michael

 

Lord Hungerford 1821

 

 

 
DRUMMOND, John R.N., *29 November 1814

 

John Drummond was employed as surgeon superintendent on the Countess of Harcourt which departed England on 3rd May 1828 and the Prince Regent which departed England 21st August 1829 and arrived 10 January 1830 (VDL)

John Drummond was on the List of Surgeons of the Royal Navy who were fit for service in 1841. He was appointed surgeon to the St. Vincent in 1842.

This may be the same John Drummond who was reported in The Standard (London) in July 1847 who was formerly of the St. Vincent was to be appointed to the rank of deputy inspector of hospitals. He was to be sent to the Woolwich division of the Royal Marines in place of Mr. Prior who retired. (32)

John Drummond still held this position ten years later when his only son John died aged 9 on 8th June 1857

 

  

DUKE, John R.N., *11 January 1810

 

Atlas 1819

John Duke was appointed to the Superb in 1822 (The Morning Chronicle 3 October 1822)

John Duke and Patrick Coleman were appointed surgeons to the Ocean in 1824 (The Morning Post 5 January 1824)

John Duke was on the List of Surgeons of the Royal Navy who were fit for service in 1841

 

 

 
DULHUNTY, John *8 July 1793

 

Sesostris 1826

 

 

 
DUNN, Robert R.N., *9 March 1815

 

Robert Dunn was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the Bussorah Merchant  in 1828 the Dunvegan Castle  in 1830 and the Jane to Van Diemen's Land in 1832.

 

 

  

DUNN, Thomas Russell (M.D.)  *15 April 1835

 

Thomas R. Dunn was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ship Augusta Jessie in 1840 and the Waverley to Van Diemen's Land in 1841.

He was on the List of Officers of the Royal Navy fit for service and employed on a convict ship in 1842.

He is listed in the Medical Register of 1865 - Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleets, Bridge of Allan N.B. Qualifications M.D. 1828, Mast. Surg. 1860, University of Glasgow.

He died in 1866.

 

 

 

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