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Surname: Hedley
First Name: Dr. Charles
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Date: 1888
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison Morrison, W. Frederic Sydney. The Aldine Publishing Company, 1888
Details: DR. CHARLES HEDLEY, M.B., Ch. B., was born at Gippsland, Victoria, in 1857. His father (G. D. Hedley, M .D., M.R.C .S.E.) was born in Cumberland , England, and came out to Victoria about 1850, where he was member for Gippsland in the second Parliament of that colony . Our subject was educated chiefly at Beechworth , and took his degrees at Melbourne University at the close of 1882 . He shortly afterwards commenced practice on the Clarence River, New South Wales, remaining there about eighteen months. 1885 he proceeded to the Newcastle district, and entered into partnership with Dr. Baker, of Hamilton, who soon afterwards removed, leaving Dr. Hedley to carry on the practice. He is honorary physician and surgeon to the Newcastle Hospital and the Benevolent Asylum, a member of the Scotch Constitution of Freemasons, and lodge physician to all the principal mines in the district . He was one of the promoters of the Sanitation Society of Newcastle. In 1886 he married the second daughter of Mr . Edward Creer - one of the early pioneers of the Clarence River district - and has one son. He is a member of the English Church