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Smart, Thomas Christie (1816 - 1896)

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Surgeon and Politician

Born: 1816 Scotland. Died: 26 March 1896 Corbelian Bay, Tasmania, Australia.

Thomas Christie Smart was a surgeon at many of Tasmania’s hospitals including the Hospital for the Insane in New Norfolk, the Queen's Asylum for destitute children at New Town and the General Hospital in Hobart. He was also a member and one-time president of the Court of Medical Examiners and a member of the Board of Commissioners for the Cascades Hospital for the Insane. Smart was not only a successful and well regarded medical practitioner, but he was also an adept politician. He spent around five years in the Legislative Council and was Alderman (1868-1869) and Mayor (1870) of Hobart. Some of his papers and records are held by the University of Tasmania Library.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1842 Medical studies completed at the Extra Academical School of Medicine in Scotland and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons
1842 - 1856 Arrived in Melbourne as Medical Officer and was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the convict probation station at Fingal, Van Diemen's Land
1849 Appointed Justice of the Peace
1856 - Private practice in Hobart Town
1860 - Honorary Medical Officer at the General Hospital in Hobart
1860 - 1868 Surgeon to the Volunteer Force of the City Guards
1862 - 1864 Medical Officer at the Queen's Asylum for destitute children at New Town
1864 - Member of the Court of Medical Examiners
1868 - 1869 Alderman of Hobart
1870 Mayor of Hobart
1871 - 1873 Trustee of the Tasmanian Public Library
1875 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), Edinburgh
1878 - 1884 Member of the Board of Commissioners for the Cascades Hospital for the Insane
1879 - Chairman of the hospital's Board of Management and Visiting Committee
1879 - 1894 Trustee of the Tasmanian Public Library
1881 - 1886 Elected to the Legislative Council
1882 - 1884 Government Minister
1884 President of the Court of Medical Examiners
1886 Resigned from the Legislative Council
1886 Manager of the Hospital for the Insane in New Norfolk
1892 - 1893 Medical Officer at the Hospital for Insane in Hobart
1895 - 1896 Medical Officer at the Hospital for Insane in Hobart

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 5 September 2005

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
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