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Surname: Power
First Name: Dr. William Dudley
Ship: 1876
Date: 1888
Place: West Maitland
Source: Morrison, W. Frederic (1888). The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison. Sydney: The Aldine Publishing Company.
Details: DR. WILLIAM DUDLEY POWER, L.R.C.S. and P., Edin., is the son of the late Dr. Power, at one time resident medical superintendent of the Cork Lunatic Asylum, and visiting physician of the Black Rock private asylum, County Cork. This gentleman was the first medical man to use the Turkish bath as a relief to the insane, and wrote many interesting works, among which may be mentioned the Flora of County Cork. He died at the age of seventy-three, having spent a long life in an honourable and commendable way. The subject of this sketch was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1853, and received his education at Queen s University, Ireland, and also at Edinburgh. He studied antiseptic surgery under Sir Joseph Lyster for two years and came out to the colonies in 1876. For a short period he lived in South Australia, but in the year 1880 succeeded the late Dr. J. Stride in West Maitland. Dr. Power is a member of the medical staff connected with the hospital of the town and of various local lodges, and friendly societies
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Surname: Power (obit)
First Name: Dr. William Dudley
Ship: -
Date: 3 June 1912
Place: Maitland
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Dr. Willam Dudley Power, senior medical officer of Maitland Hospital, and one of Maitland s best-known residents, passed away at his home at High Street, yesterday morning. He had been suffering from acute rheumatism for some years, but pneumonia supervened, and caused his death. The deceased gentleman was born in Cork Ireland in 1853, and was a son of Dr. Thomas Power, superintendent of the Eglington Asylum, of that city. He graduated at Queens College, Cork, and at, Edinburgh University, and came to Australia in the Seventies. He was assistant to his uncle, Dr. Robert Moore, of Adelaide, for two years and after a brief Service with the A.M.P. Society, settled in West Maitland in 1881, and built up a largo practice. He was medical officer to several friendly societies, Honorary medical officer to the Benevolent Society, and honorary senior medical officer of Maitland Hospital. He was a skilful surgeon and an able physician, while he was one of the genial, manly class of men who had many friends and no enemies. He was a well read brainy man and took more than an ordinary interest in standard and current literature. In public life he was almost unknow, but he was a the possessor of a fine voice which was often heard in choir music in the cathedral. He married a daughter of the late Mr. John Thompson, one of the Maitland Mercury proprietors and leaves with her two daughters and four sons