Manual of health and temperance, 1891: t.p. (J.W. Springthorpe)
Australian Dictionary of Biography (online) 14 September 2023: John William Springthorpe (1855-1933), physician, was born on 29 August 1855 at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. He was brought in infancy to Sydney and educated in Sydney and Melbourne. At the University of Melbourne he won exhibitions and graduated M.A., M.B., B.S. in 1879 and M.D. in 1884. He went to England, and became in 1881 the first Australian graduate admitted to membership of the Royal College of Physicians. Returning to Melbourne in 1883, he opened his own practice and held hospital appointments; in 1887 he became a university lecturer, and was active in training and registration of other medical professions; he served in Egypt and Europe in World War I. On returning he found his appointments had lapsed; he resumed his practice and visits to asylums and worked in reptariation and the infant welfare movement. He died at home in Richmond on 22 April 1933.) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/springthorpe-john-william-8610
WBIS, accessed Nov. 19, 2014 (Springthorpe, John William; b. 1855, d. 1933)