Record ID:
46612024 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
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  • Name.
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Birth:
  • Haarlem, Holland
Death:
  • Kettering, Tasmania
Lived/located in:
  • Hobart, Tasmania
Notes:
  • Premier of Tasmania 1878-1879. Business interests included whaling, guano, timber and a medical practice. Son of William Crowther (1788-1839) and Sarah Crowther (nee Pearson). Married Victoire Marie Louise Muller in 1841. Children: William, Edward Lodewyk, Marie Louise, William Edwin, Henry Lucas, Arthur Bingham, Herbert, Eugene, Caroline, Emmaline, Selina.
  • Aspects of the life of a colonial surgeon, the Honourable W.L. Crowther, F.R.C.S., C.M.Z.S., sometime Premier of Tasmania, 1942: title page (the Honourable W.L. Crowther, F.R.C.S., C.M.Z.S., sometime Premier of Tasmania)
  • ADB viewed 24 May 2019: ("William Lodewyk Crowther (1817-1885), surgeon, naturalist and parliamentarian, was born on 15 April 1817 at Haarlem, Holland, the elder child of Dr William Crowther (1788-1839) and his wife Sarah (1795-1863), daughter of George Pearson, sometime mayor of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. William senior and his family migrated in the Cumberland (Captain Carns) and arrived in January 1825 at Hobart Town, where he set up practice... Crowther had many other interests. Like his father he was appointed to the Court of Medical Examiners, serving as its president for many years, and as honorary surgeon at the Hobart General Hospital... He was popular as a skilful surgeon and physician and as a family and lodge doctor, served on the Council of the University of Tasmania, on the diocesan council, as president of the Dental Board and became noted for his benevolence to the poor. He also acted as coroner and justice of the peace. Practising until 1924 when an effusion of the knee led to his retirement, he spent his last years at Oyster Cove, near Kettering, where he died on 9 August 1931." Also Member of Parliament, and Premier of Tasmania. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/crowther-william-lodewyk-3297
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