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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Hardwick-Smith, Henry

Henry HARDWICK-SMITH

BA (Cantab) 1899, MRCS (Eng) LRCP (Lond) 1904, MB BChir (Cantab) 1907, FRCS (Eng) 1907

Born Layfields, Rufford, Nottinghamshire 3 May 1877 Died Wellington 6 Oct 1946
H Hardwick-Smith
Educated at Rufford School and Wycliffe College
Entered St Johns College, Cambridge in 1896
Medical training at St Barts Hospital, London
First registered as a medical practitioner in NZ 29 Jul 1908
Initially practised in Christchurch, before moving to Wellington
Medical Superintendent, Wellington Hospital 1910 – 1914
With Dr William Herbert, co-founder of Bowen Hospital on the corner of Bowen St and The Terrace.
Private Surgical practice 1914 – 1917, and again post-war.
Surgical Specialist with the NZMC on hospital ship Maheno 1917 -1918

Obituary: NZMJ 1946 45:570
photograph courtesy Home of Compassion archives, Wellington