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Agency:
Holden Family
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1860
Description:
Lonsdale Andrew Holden (ca.1850-1927), a nephew of eminent British surgeon and anatomist Luther Holden FRCS (1816-1905), was Assistant House Surgeon at the Royal Hobart Hospital 1877-1883. After briefly returning to England he resumed medical practice in Tasmania at Circular Head and then back in Hobart.;;Lonsdale's son Andrew (1883-1973) married Una, daughter of Bishop H. H. Montgomery and sister of Field Marshal Montgomery. He worked as a civil servant in Egypt 1907-1952.
Information Sources:
Statistics of the Colony of Tasmania 1877/78;;'Obituary: Luther Holden' British Medical Journal, 11 Feb 1905, pp.337-338;;Marriage notice: Holden-Ware, Argus (Melbourne), 29 Aug 1879, p.1;;Death notice: Ellen Ursula Holden, Times (London) 27 Aug 1949, p.1;;'Mr Andrew Holden' [obituary], Times (London), 26 Jun 1973, p.18;;England: census and birth records
Functions Performed:
Family archives
Series Created By Agency:
NS5656 Medical Books01 May 1869

NS2235 Testimonial25 Nov 188325 Nov 1883

NS779 Copy of Andrew Holden's Reminiscences01 Jan 188631 Jul 1902