Thomas Holthouse

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Background

Thomas Le Gay Holthouse was from England. He arrived in Ballarat mid 1853, staying at Bentley’s Eureka Hotel. x

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Dr Holthouse was born on 29 December 1918 and Enfield, Middlesex, United Kingdom.[1] He was associated with many who participated in the Eureka Stockade battle.

Dr. Holthouse was a medical pioneer of Ballarat, Victoria, from 1853 to 1888.</ref>

Post 1854 Experiences

Holthouse was a medical practitioner who remained in Ballarat after the Eureka Affair. He lived at Doveton St, Ballarat in 1872.[2]

Obituary

BALLARAT. Tuesday Night
Dr Thomas Holthouse, one of the earliest settlers in Ballarat, died from a general breaking up of the system and heart failure at his residence in Pleasant-street, to-day. In his 83rd year the deceased practised his profession up to Sunday last. One of his daughters is the wife of Dr. Cooper, the Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, New South Wales, and another is the widow of the late Mr David Madden, brother of the Chief Justice.[3]
Dr. Holthouse, one of the oldest medical practitioners in Ballarat. died suddenly on Dec. 10 from heart failure. The deceased gentleman, who was 82 years of age, followed a seafaring H£c in his early youth, but subsequently studied medicine, and gained the diploma of M.R.C.S., London. He arrived in Victoria in 1853, and shortly afterwards settled m Ballarat. For more than 30 years he was a Government vaccinator, and for a quarter of a century stipendiary medical officer at the Ballarat Benevolent Asylum. Dr. Holthouse, who was a native of Middlesex, England, leaves a widow and family. One of his daughters is Mrs. Cooper, wife of Dr. Cooper, late Bishop Suffragan of Ballarat, and now Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, New South Wales; and an other daughter is Mrs. Madden, widow of the late Mr. D. Madden, solicitor, of Ballarat, and a brother of the Victorian Chief Justice, Sir John Madden.

In The News

[[File:GILL ST - Ballaarat Flat from the Black Hill - 2004.111-wiki.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|Samuel Thomas Gill, Ballaarat Flat, from the Black Hill - 1855, lithograph on paper.
Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ronald Wrigley Estate, 1979.]]

MEDICAL – For Sale, an old established Practice, with Tent, Drugs, Furniture, &c. An introduction given if required. Apply Messrs Tyree, Green and Co’s Auction Mart, Ballarat Flat, or before 11 o’clock at Mr Holthouse’s, surgeon, &c., near Bentley’s Eureka Hotel. [4]


A telegram has been received from London announcing the death on July 18, in his 92nd year, of Dr. Carston Holthouse, F.R.C.S. and M.R.C.S., surgeon to Westminster Hospital, and eldest brother of the late Mr. Edward Holthouse of the Semaphore, and Dr. Holthouse, of Ballarat. [5][6]

See also

Further Reading

Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.

References

  1. https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Holthouse/6000000075209138859, accessed 10 October 2020.
  2. http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110360229, accessed 10 October 2020.
  3. Geelong Advertiser, 11 December 1901.
  4. Ballarat Times, 21 October 1854.
  5. Adelaide Register, 27 August 1901.
  6. Adelaide Chronicle, 21 December 1901.

External links

Photograph - https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/53daef199821f513b8855b8f



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