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207716
Surname: Horsfall
First Name: Dr. Alfred H
Ship: -
Date: 13 July 1895
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Dr. Alfred H. Horsfall, medical superintendent of Newcastle Hospital, gave evidence at the inquest into the death of a destitute man by the name of Thomas Smart


207718
Surname: Horsfall
First Name: Dr. Alfred Herbert
Ship: -
Date: 9 August 1895
Place: -
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Alfred Herbert Horsfall, resident surgeon of the Newcastle Hospital, was a cousin of Dr. Robert Hodgson Anderson M.B., surgeon of the Catterthun. Dr. Anderson lost his life when the Catterthun was wrecked off Seal Rocks in 1895


207719
Surname: Horsfall
First Name: Dr. Alfred Herbert
Ship: -
Date: 17 January 1900
Place: -
Source: NSW Government Gazette
Details: Alfred Herbert Horsfall Esq., M. B. et Ch. B., Melb., appointed Lieutenant in the NSW Army Medical Corps


207720
Surname: Horsfall
First Name: Dr. Alfred Herbert
Ship: -
Date: 19 January 1900
Place: Newcastle
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Biographical sketches of officers of the New South Wales second contingent – Dr. Alfred Herbert Horsfall is the son of the late Mr. Jonas Horsfall, of Fitzroy, Melbourne, and was born in 1871. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and afterwards matriculated at Melbourne University, where in 1892 he secured the degree of M . B. et Ch.B. His first professional appointment was to the Melbourne Police Hospital, an institution conducted on military lines, where he remained for 15 months when he was selected as one of the resident surgeons of the Melbourne Hospital. Dr. Horsfall also occupied positions in connection with the Victorian and South Australian Boards of Health, supervising the quarantine arrangements and disinfection of vessels. He accepted the position of resident medical superintendent of the Newcastle Hospital in 1895, and in the following year commenced the practise of his profession at Hamilton, a suburb of Newcastle. For the past three years Dr. Horsfall has been annually elected as one of the members of the honorary medical board of the Newcastle Hospital, which position he still retains. He is president of the Newcastle Scientific Society, is connected with the School of Arts, and is closely identified with several other public institutions


207726
Surname: Horsfall
First Name: Dr. Alfred Herbert
Ship: -
Date: 24 December 1897
Place: Adamstown
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Notice that the partnership between Drs. G. Francis Smith and Alfred John Harwood is dissolved and the practice to be carried on by Drs. Alfred John Harwood and Alfred Herbert Horsfall as partners


207577
Surname: Horsfall
First Name: Dr. William
Ship: -
Date: 15 August 1914
Place: -
Source: NMH
Details: Dr. William Horsfall of Hamilton was specially asked by the naval authorities to take command of the medical and surgical work on the steamer Grantala which was being fitted out as a hospital ship at Garden Island, Sydney. Dr. Horsfall s long training on the battleships of the Imperial navy and in the naval hospitals at Haslar should make his services of great value to the expedition


207730
Surname: Horsfall (obit)
First Name: Dr. William
Ship: -
Date: 21 July 1936
Place: London
Source: The Argus
Details: A private message from London announces the death in London of Dr. William Horsfall, youngest son of the late Jonas and Emily Horsfall of Fitzroy. Dr. Horsfall was born in Fitzroy and he was aged 56 years. He attended the Cambridge street State school, Collingwood of which his father was head master, and later went on to Hawthorn College. He graduated in medicine in the University of Melbourne, and became a naval surgeon. When he left the sea he practised in Newcastle NSW and later in Sydney where he undertook post graduate studies and became a heart specialist. At the outbreak of war he returned to the Navy and was surgeon in command of the hospital ship Grantala. At the end of his war service he began practice in London. His wife whom he met in the Bermudas during his naval service and a son and two daughters survive him