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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Fyffe, W Kington

William Kington FYFFE

BA (Camb) 1885, MA (Camb), MB BCh (Camb) 1890, LCA (Lond) 1890, MRCP (Lond) 1893, MD (Lond)

Born Dublin 25 Mar 1863 Died Wellington 26 Apr 1920
Educated at Clifton College and at Caius College, Cambridge
W K Fyffe
Acland Prize in Clinical Medicine, St Georges Hospital Medical School
Assistant HP and Assistant Registrar, St Georges Hospital 1891
HP, St Georges Hospital, London 1892-1893
Pathology and Medical Registrar, City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Victoria Park 1894
HP and Medical Registrar, St Georges Hospital 1895
Medical Registrar, St Georges Hospital 1896
West end practice for a time until poor health prompted him to emigrate.
First registered as a medical practitioner in NZ 29 Dec 1896.
Established private practice in Wellington.
Organist & choirmaster, St Peters Church for 20 years.
Honorary Pathologist, Wellington Hospital 1898 – 1902
Appointed Sanitary Commissioner, Wellington District in 1900, at the time of a plague scare
photograph courtesy Home of Compassion, Wellington

Honorary Visiting Physician, Wellington Hospital 1912 – 1919
WW1 service, Major NZMC, wounded at Gallipoli

Obituary: NZMJ 1920 19:155