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HALL, James
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(Two surgeons by the name of James Hall...... (1) *2 August
1808; (2) James Hall *28 August 1809
From the
Australian
Dictionary of Biography Online -
James Hall, naval surgeon, was born on 17 September 1784
at New Inn Yard, Shoreditch, London, son of Joseph Hall
and his wife, Mary Shaw. James was a second surgeon at the
naval hospital at Corfu, Greece, in 1807. At the risk of
his life he warned a British sloop that the French had
occupied Corfu, thus saving her from seizure, and gave the
commander of H.M.S. Weazle information
which enabled him to sink three privateers and capture a
gunboat with eight transports under convoy, loaded with
French troops bound for Corfu. He was appointed an
assistant surgeon in the navy in August 1809 and surgeon
in September 1817.
In 1820 James Hall was surgeon-superintendent
of the convict transport Agamemnon which
reached Sydney in September
1820.
(He signed the Journal of the
Agamemnon J. Hall, Surgeon, formerly of the Imperial
Russian Navy.)
Charles Bateson in The Convict
Ships describes James Hall as a zealous, meddlesome and
litigious individual who was later surgeon on the
Brothers in 1824 and the
Mary Anne in 1822
and the Georgiana to Tasmania in 1833...( These
Journals are all signed James Hall {2}, Surgeon )
James Hall M.D. (28 August 1809) was on the
List of Retired Surgeons of the Royal Navy in 1841.
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HALLION,
John William
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John William Hallion was born c. 1790 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He was on the list of surviving men entitled to Naval General
Service Medal clasps for actions between 1793 and 1827. He
served as Assistant-Surgeon on the Alfred. (84)
He was entered in the
Navy List of Medical Officers in 1814 and was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ship
Alexander .
The Alexander departed Ireland 4 November 1815 and
arrived in Port Jackson 4th April 1816. On arrival John
Hallion wrote a letter of recommendation and request that ten
of the women of the Alexander be exempt from being sent
to Van Diemen's Land.
John Hallion married Margaret Catherine Liephardt on 22
December 1817 at St. Marys, Lambeth (103)
He was employed on the convict ship
Isabella
in 1818. The Isabella departed Portsmouth 3 April 1818 and
arrived in Port Jackson 14 September 1818. The voyage was not
an easy one. Only 11 days out from port a private ordered into
handcuffs for insolent and contemptuous behaviour, committed
suicide by jumping overboard (Charles Bateson, The Convict
Ships); and on the 18th April John Hallion became aware of a
'serious and alarming conspiracy' to take the ship.
Depositions were taken but there seems to have been no further
action taken. He did not intend to remain long in the
colony after arrival and was planning to depart for England on
the Isabella in October.
Following are some of the children of Margaret Catherine and
John William Hallion - John William, baptised 20 October
1818; Matilda was baptised in 1820; daughter
Catherine baptised in 1821; George Alexander baptised in 1823;
Isabella in 1826; Louisa Ursbet in 1829; Fanny baptised in
1831; Matilda baptised in 1831; Thomas Charles in 1833; Henry
Brook in 1836; Julia in 1837
John W. Hallion was on the List of Surgeons unfit for service
in 1841 and on the list of Surgeons retired in 1851.
John Hallion age 70, can be found in the 1861 Census residing
at Marylebone with his wife Margaret (who was born in Hamburg)
and four of their adult children, all unmarried....Catherine
age 38 is a Governess; Louisa age 30; Charles age 27, a
copying clerk and Julia age 23.
He was on the Medical Register List of 1865. Residence: 29
Charrington St. St. Pancras, London. Qualifications Surgeon in
the Navy 1810.
He died in Charrington Street, Oakley square, St. Pancras, Co.
Middlesex aged 77 on 13th April 1868. His Will was proved by
the oath of Mary Catherine Hallion of the Vicarage Sutton
Valence near Staplehurst, Co. Kent, spinster, his daughter.
(45)
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HAMETT, Sir John
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John Hamett (Hammett) was appointed Assistant Surgeon on 20
August 1812. He was entered in the
Navy List of Medical Officers in 1814
He was appointed to the Coromandel in 1818 (Edinburgh
Magazine)
He was appointed assistant surgeon to the
Leander in 1819
He was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the
Gilbert Henderson which arrived in Hobart in 1840.
Twenty years later the voyage of the Gilbert Henderson
was written of by a young midshipman who was a passenger :-
'In the year 1841, I sailed from Woolwich on board the
barque Gilbert Henderson, of Liverpool, chartered as a convict
ship by Government, and bound to Hobart Town, Van Diemen's
land, with a living freight of three hundred and fifty female
convicts.....Besides the naval surgeon (in our case one Sir
John Hammet), the passengers on board the Gilbert Henderson
comprised a retired 'naval physician of the fleet', who was
going out to settle in Van Diemen's Land, on a grant of land
he had received from Government; his nephew, a young Irishman
about twenty years of age, of no profession, who was going out
to seek his fortune, under his uncle's patronage; his son, a
lad of fifteen years; a retired army captain, greatly addicted
to microscopic studies, who was also going out to take
possession of a Government grant; and a midshipman of the
Royal Navy (myself) going out to rejoin my ship, after having
been on sick furlough.
Sir John Hamett was a surgeon of higher
naval rank than it was or is usual to appoint to do duty on
board a convict ship. He had been knighted for his services
(in Prussia) on behalf of the English Government, during the
period of the cholera epidemic of 1831-32. But he had accepted
the appointment because it afforded him an opportunity to
reach Van Diemen's land free of expense, in order to settle
upon a grant of land in the interior of the island, which had
been accorded to him for his medical services, in addition to
the honour of knighthood.
I may, however, here state that the
worthy knight who was somewhat of an eccentric, and was the
most enthusiastic of the party respecting the anticipated
delights of a colonial life, very soon found his way back to
England.
He had provided himself with all the
requisites of a settler in the 'bush', such as tents, axes,
spades, garden seeds, cooking utensils, etc., and to these had
added all the comforts and elegancies of civilisation that he
could stow on board, such as articles of furniture, cases of
books, pipes and barrels of wine and beer, etc, and, according
to his own account, was going to found a Utopia in the
wilderness; yet on landing at Portsmouth two years afterwards,
the first person I met on the quay was Sir John Hammett!
"I heard that the B had just arrived",
he said, as he shook hands with me, "and I came down expecting
to find that you had returned to England with the vessel. I
thought I'd like to shake hands with my old shipmate again. We
had some pleasant days on board the Gilbert Henderson."
"Yes Sir John", I replied, "But you of
all persons are the last I should have expected to meet. I
thought you were long ago comfortably settled in the bush."
"Wouldn't do my dear sir", replied the
knight. "Not at all the thing for a man of my years. I was
sadly disappointed. Not a living soul within twenty miles of
my grant. Went to look for it couldn't find it for a long
time. Found it. A wretched place. Nobody to speak to but the
convict servants I took with me. Should have been dead and
buried in less than six months if I'd stayed. Remained a week.
Came back to Hobart Town, and sailed for England on board the
first vessel that was ready for sea. Sad take in. Grants of
land indeed! Cost me hundreds of pounds all thrown away.
Ruinous! Come and dine with me today but don't speak of Van
Diemen's Land. It makes me miserable to think of it."
I accepted the invitation to dinner and
found Sir John very comfortably situated in a modest
establishment near Portsmouth, with his wife and daughter,
enjoying a much nearer approach to the Utopia of his sanguine
imagination than ever he would have succeeded in founding in
Tasmania.'
Sir John Hammett was on the List of Surgeons of the Royal Navy who were
fit for service in 1841 and was appointed to the Vindictive
in 1842 (124)
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HAMILTON, James
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James Hamilton was entered in the
Navy List of Medical Officers of 1814
Surgeon Superintendent James Hamilton kept a Medical Journal
from 10 March to 12 September 1821 on the voyage of the
Adamant
He was also employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the
Chapman in 1824 and kept a journal from 4th March to
31st July 1824.
James Hamilton was on the List of Surgeons of the Royal Navy
who were fit for service in 1841
He is on the List of the
Medical Registry of 1865 - Residence Newtown Stewart, Co.
Tyrone. Qualifications - Surgeon i nthe Navy 1811, Poor Law
appointment 1852.
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HAMILTON, John.M |
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John Hamilton was appointed assistant surgeon on the
Buffalo
on 21st January 1833
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HAMILTON, William *10 February
1797 |
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William Hamilton was entered in the
Navy List of Medical Officers in 1814
William Hamilton was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the
convict ship
Elizabeth
in 1818. He
returned to England in April 1819 on the Shipley with seven
other naval surgeons(2)
He was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the
Norfolk
in 1825
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HAMPTON, John Stephen |
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John Hampton was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the
convict ship Mexborough in 1842. The Mexborough departed
Dublin 12 August 1841 and arrived in Van Diemen's Land on 26 December
1841 with 143 female prisoners. John Hampton kept a Medical
Journal from 28th July 1841 and 4th January 1842. He was employed as Surgeon
Superintendent on the convict ship Constant in 1843. He
kept a Medical Journal during the voyage from 12 April to 18 September
1843 He was employed as Surgeon
Superintendent on the Sir George Seymour which departed Woolwich
on 9 November 1844. He kept a Medical Journal from 23rd September 1844
to 26 April 1845..........On the 9th October a guard consisting of 2
officers and 30 rank and file accompanied by the usual proportion of
women and children embarked on board the Sir George Seymour at Deptford.
Next day the ship dropped down to Woolwich where damp cold weather
produced several cases of catarrh among the soldiers, one of whom was
sent to the military hospital. During the night of the 27th October a
soldier's wife was delivered of a fine male child, who afterwards died
on board from an attack of infantile fever brought on by neglect and ill
treatment. On the morning of the 28th and 29th October 345 Exiles and
Convicts were sent on board direct from Pentonville Prison where they
had been shut up in separate confinement for periods varying from
fifteen to twenty two months. The sudden change from extreme seclusion
to the noise and bustle of a crowded ship produced a great number
of cases of convulsions attended in some instances with nausea and
vomiting in others simulating hysteria and in all being of a most
anomalous character. He was appointed Comptroller
General of Convicts for Van Diemen's Land in 1846 (The Standard 27 May
1846) and Governor of Western Australia in 1862. He died in 1869 at
Hastings, East Sussex.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
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HARRIS, John
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HASLAM, John *17 August 1815 |
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John Haslam was entered in the
Navy List of Medical Officers in 1814
He was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ship
Mariner
in 1816
John Haslam died in 1824........On the 8th instant, at Harwich, aged 31, Mr.
John Haslam, surgeon of his Majesty brig Investigator, son of
Dr. Haslam of Hart Street, Bloomsbury. (The Examiner 23 May 1824)
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HENDERSON,
Alexander |
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HENDERSON, Andrew
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Andrew Henderson was appointed Assistant Surgeon on 21 May 1811.
He was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ships
Florentia to
NSW in 1830
Lord
William Bentinck to Van Diemen's Land in 1832. He kept
a medical journal from 3 April to 3 September 1832
Royal Admiral
to NSW in 1833
Aurora 1835
to Van Diemen's Land
St. Vincent to
NSW
in 1837
Royal Sovereign in 1838 to Van Diemen's Land
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HENDERSON, William |
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(Two surgeons by the name of William Henderson....(1)
William Henderson *22 March 1797 (2) *29 October 1808)
Charles Bateson in 'The Convict Ships' records William Henderson as surgeon superintendent on
the convict ship Bussorah Merchant in
1830, however the signature on the Surgeon's Journal of the Bussorah
Merchant seems to be the same as the signature on the
Surgeon's Journal of the
City of Edinburgh in 1828. Surgeon on the City
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HILDITCH, Sir Edward |
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Edward Hilditch was born at St. Andrews Holborn,
Middlesex on 13 May 1805, the son of John Frederick and Sarah
Hilditch. His brother George William was born 12 October 1803.
Both were baptised on the same day in June 1805 . His wife
Jane was born at Lambeth Surrey.
He studied medicine at St. George Hospital, took his diploma
in 1826 and entered the naval medical service. He was on the
West Indian station and had extensive experience in dealing
with outbreaks of yellow fever. (57)
He was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ship
Susan to Van Diemen's Land in 1837 and the
Theresa in 1839
In 1841 Edward Hilditch was on the List of Surgeons of the
Royal Navy who was fit for service. He was employed at the
hospital at Jamaica.
 ....1844
In 1847 it was announced that Edward Hilditch of
Jamaica had been appointed to the Bermuda Hospital in place of
Dr. Oliver Evans who had been appointed to the position of
Deputy Medical Inspector at Plymouth Hospital. (56)
Edward Hilditch was employed at the Royal Naval Hospital at
Plymouth in 1861. The Census records him residing there
with his wife Jane aged 55 and 50. Edward is employed as
Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals. Also employed at the
Naval Hospital at this time was surgeon
Robert Beith.
Edward Hilditch was knighted and in 1859 was named honorary
physician to the queen.
He was included in the Medical Register of 1865 -
Qualifications Mem Royal College Surgeons, Eng, 1826, M.D.
Marisch College University of Aberdeen 1859.
He died at Bayswater on 24 August 1876 age 71.(57)
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HILL, Patrick
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Patrick Hill was appointed Assistant Surgeon on 28 September
1812.
He was appointed to the
Leviathan in 1813.
In 1814 the Leviathan had just returned
from the West Indies where 150 of the crew had been affected
with fever. She was quarantined on arrival in England and it
was after this that
Campbell France
was appointed to her.
(133)
Patrick Hill
was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Salisbury in
1818 (Peter Fisher was also assistant surgeon to the Salisbury
at this time).
Patrick
Hill was promoted to the position of Surgeon to the Raleigh in 1819 (The
Edinburgh Magazine)
He was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on convict ships
to New South Wales,
Atlas
in 1816 and
Earl St. Vincent
in 1820.
He was appointed to the post of Assistant
Surgeon on the Colonial Medical Establishment in 1821, with
responsibility for the Medical Department at Liverpool. He
married Mary Throsby, niece of
Charles Throsby of Glenfield on 12th July 1827. In 1840
they resided in a commodious family house consisting of a dining
room, drawing room, four bedrooms, kitchen, laundry, store room
and servants' offices, with stables, coach house and an excellent
garden, situated on George's River.
Patrick Hill remained at Liverpool for
twenty years and when he left in January 1841, he was presented
with a handsome service of Plate and an
Address by grateful residents. He took up an appointment as
Superintendent of the Hospital and the
Parramatta Asylum (formerly the
Female
Factory). In 1848 he was appointed Superintendent of the
Parramatta Gaol
Patrick Hill
died in March 1852 - On Saturday the 13th instant at his farm,
in the county of Camden, Patrick Hill, surgeon in the Royal Navy,
after a few hours illness in the 58th year o his age.
Patrick Hill
was an
acquaintance of surgeon
Campbell France. Select
State Library of NSW to find out more about Patrick Hill
and correspondence between Patrick Hill and Campbell France
written in 1833.
....1824
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HISLOP, Joseph
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Joseph Hislop was employed as surgeon on the convict ships
Nile which arrived in New South Wales in December
1801
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HOGAN, John
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John Hogan was employed as surgeon on the
Marquis Cornwallis in 1796.
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HUGHES, Joseph Hugh R.N., *19 August 1805
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Joseph Hugh Hughes was entered in the
Navy List of Medical Officers in 1814
He was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ship
Chapman to VDL in 1826
He was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ship
Elizabeth
in 1828
Joseph H. Hughes was on the
List of Retired Navy Surgeons in 1841
3rd September 1859 - At Islington, aged 87, Joseph Hugh
Hughes, surgeon in the Royal Navy. The deceased was grandson and
heir of George Baron Sempill and Elliottstown, of Renfrew, N.B.,
whose titles and estates were forfeited as a consequence of the
great Rebellion of 1745. (Annual
Register)
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HUGHES, Richard
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Aeolus 1809
Providence 1811
General Hewitt 1814
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HUME, Archibald * 17 August 1815 |
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Archibald Hume was entered in the Navy List of
Medical Officers in 1814
He was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on
the convict ships
Guildford
in 1818 and the
Coromandel
in 1820
(Edinburgh Magazine 1822)
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HUNTER, James *3 October 1814 |
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James Hunter was entered in the Navy List of Medical Officers in 1814
He was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ships
Minerva
in 1818,
Prince Regent
in 1820 and the
Princess Royal
in 1823
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HUNTER, Thomas *24 April 1813 |
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There were two Surgeons by the name of Thomas Hunter entered
in the
Navy List of Medical Officers of 1814. (Thomas Hunter * 24
April 1813 and Thomas Hunter * 18 May 1796)
Thomas Hunter was appointed assistant surgeon to the
Ardent in 1809
Thomas Hunter was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict
ship
Competitor
in 1828
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