Identifier: devoncornwallnot06amer (find matches)
Title: Devon & Cornwall notes & queries
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Amery, John S
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Publisher: Exeter, England : J.G. Commin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ck, Surgeon, of Totnes,he was born there, was a pupil of King Edward VI. Schoolin that town, served his articles as a solicitor, and practisedat Totnes up to the time of his death. For many years hewas Registrar of the Archdeaconry Court of Totnes. In the town affairs he took great interest; he enteredthe Town Council in i860. In 1877 was elected an Alderman,a position he held to his death. On four occasions he wasMayor of Totnes, 1865, 1884, 1885 and 1896 (Diamond Jubileeof Queen Victoria), and on the last occasion he attendedthe Queens levee. He was one of the Totnes EndowedSchool Governors, and took a deep interest in educationalmatters. He was greatly interested in whatever had to do withDevon, and especially in the topography of the County. E. W. (Since the above notices were written, we have, withgreat regret, learnt of the death of Dr. Brushfield, anothereminent and much respected Devonshire antiquary. Somedetails of his life and work will be published in the nextissue.—Eds.)
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Thomas Nadauld Brushfield, M.D., F.S.A. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 161 149. The Late Dr. T. N. Brushfield.— (We have torecord, with great regret, the death of one of the mostvalued contributors to D. &> C. N. &> Q.—the late Dr.Thomas Nadauld Brushfield, m.d., f.s.a.—which occurredon Nov. 28th, 1910, a few days before the attainment of his82nd birthday, at his residence, The Cliff, Budleigh Salterton.He had been in failing health for some months prior to hisdecease, which, however, came somewhat unexpectedly atthe last. The following particulars have been furnished tous by one of his intimate friends.) Dr. Brushfield, who had a wide and well-earned reputa-tion as a specialist in mental disease, was born in London,but of Derbyshire parents, Dec. 10th, 1828. He was trained atthe London Hospital, where he gained three gold medals andother honours, and in 1850 became M.R.C.S. In 1852 hereceived the appointment of Superintendent of the CheshireCounty Asylum, w

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