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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Woodhouse, P Randal

Philip Randal WOODHOUSE DSO OBE MC and Bar

MB ChB (NZ) 1910

Born Dunedin 9 Feb 1886 Died Timaru 1 Oct 1970
P R Woodhouse
Educated at Otago Boys’ High School
HS, Wellington Hospital 1911 – 1913
Acting Medical Superintendent Wellington Hospital 1913
Went to England in 1913 to study for the FRCS, but when WW1 started, he joined the RAMC and served in France with distinction.
Medical Superintendent, Wellington Hospital 1919 – 1921
He began a new career in farming at the beginning of 1922. His wife, Airini Rhodes, had inherited Blue Cliffs sheep run, and Randal became the station manager.

Obituary: NZMJ 1970 72:342
photograph courtesy Wellington Hospital photographic archive