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2. Richard Brice (b. 1838). He was christened Richard Brice John Elistrateff Southee at the British Chaplaincy in St. Petersburg, Russia on 15th May 1846.<ref>https://www.familytreecircles.com/richard-southee-1804-kent-england-to-1873-victoria-australia-via-st-petersburg-17366.html, accessed 8 March 2021.</ref>
 
2. Richard Brice (b. 1838). He was christened Richard Brice John Elistrateff Southee at the British Chaplaincy in St. Petersburg, Russia on 15th May 1846.<ref>https://www.familytreecircles.com/richard-southee-1804-kent-england-to-1873-victoria-australia-via-st-petersburg-17366.html, accessed 8 March 2021.</ref>
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== Obituary ==
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::The Maryborough Advertiser of this morning announces the sad intelligence of the sudden death of Dr Southee at Majorca. He was found dead in his bed at about 8 o'clock yesteiday morning, Dr Southee was a very old resident of the District and well known throughout it, having practised at Maryborough, Carisbrook, Maldon, Clunes and Majorca, for the last 17 or 18 years past. He had attained the ripe age of 74 years, and had formerly been an army surgeon in the Russian service. His funeral will take place on Sunday next at the Maryborough Cemetery.<ref>Avoca Mail, 13 June 1873.</ref>
  
 
== Also See ==
 
== Also See ==

Latest revision as of 21:50, 8 March 2021

Background

Richard Southee was born in 1804 at Bekesbourne, Kent, England to parents John Southee and Charlotte Brice. He married Martha Hatfield.[1]

Dr Southee trained at the London Hospital qualifying in 1824 and then onto become a Licentiate of the academy of medicine in St Petersburg 1828. He appears in the 1851 census as a surgeon in Cambridge before emigrating to Australia. Dr Southee arrived in Melbourne on 25 December 1851, and was living in Castlemaine in 1854 and Forest Creek in 1857. Richard Southee died at Marjorca on 12 June 1873, and he is buried in the Maryborough Cemetery, Victoria.[2]

In 1826 Southee was recommended "to the patronage of the chief medical officer of the Russian army, as a gentleman highly qualified to perform his duty as a surgeon, and anxiously desirous of obtaining the approbation of his superiors" by his tutor in surgery Dr. Astley Cooper (later Sir Astley Cooper). Dr Southee went on to serve the Russian Army as a surgeon.[3]

Goldfields Involvement 1853-1854

Dr Richard Southee addressed the meeting on Agitation Hill, Castlemaine, in 1853.

Family

Richard Southee married Martha Hatfield and they had two children.

1. Martha Amelia Southee (b. 1831)[4]

2. Richard Brice (b. 1838). He was christened Richard Brice John Elistrateff Southee at the British Chaplaincy in St. Petersburg, Russia on 15th May 1846.[5]


Obituary

The Maryborough Advertiser of this morning announces the sad intelligence of the sudden death of Dr Southee at Majorca. He was found dead in his bed at about 8 o'clock yesteiday morning, Dr Southee was a very old resident of the District and well known throughout it, having practised at Maryborough, Carisbrook, Maldon, Clunes and Majorca, for the last 17 or 18 years past. He had attained the ripe age of 74 years, and had formerly been an army surgeon in the Russian service. His funeral will take place on Sunday next at the Maryborough Cemetery.[6]

Also See

Castlemaine

External Links

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1854-55NoC33.pdf