George Rothwell Wilson Adam (1853 - 1924)

Born 22 Jan 1853 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Husband of Eveline Grace (Jones) Adam — married 1883 in Victoria, Australia

Died 26 Dec 1924 at age 71 in St. Ives Hospital, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

George Rothwell Adam was born about 1853. He was a son of George Wilson Adam and Elizabeth Rothwell.

George Rothwell Wilson Adam ^[1] (1853-1924), physician, was born on 22 January 1853 at Leeds, Yorkshire, England, son of George Wilson Adam (d.1901), Presbyterian minister, and his wife Elizabeth, née Rothwell. The family migrated to New South Wales when he was a child, and in 1861 moved to Victoria where his father served first at Brighton, then at country centres including Koroit, Horsham and finally Urana, New South Wales.

In 1867 Rothwell Adam, as he was known in later professional life, entered Scotch College, Melbourne. He matriculated at the University of Melbourne in 1870 but tried farming before determining on a career in medicine. At paternal insistence he went to his father's university, Edinburgh (M.B., Ch.M., 1878). As resident physician in the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, he was inspired by J. H. Croom (later professor of midwifery, University of Edinburgh); in a similar post at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary he again devoted most of his time to diseases of women.

Bessie Watmuff was a patient and mentions him in one of her letters.

He married Eveline Jones in 1883 at Victoria.^[2]

He was elected an honorary obstetrician to the (Royal) Women's Hospital, Melbourne, and from 1895 until his retirement in 1913 was gynaecologist there. In 1900 he succeeded W. Balls-Headley as lecturer in obstetrics and diseases of women at the University of Melbourne.^[3]

He passed away, aged 71 years, in 1924 at Melbourne West, Victoria^[4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ Frank M. C. Forster, Adam, George Rothwell Wilson (1853–1924), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/adam-george-rothwell-wilson-4968/text8245, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 19 September 2018.]
2. ↑ Victoria Marriage Index #5317/1883
3. ↑ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/adam-george-rothwell-wilson-4968
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #208166228
5. ↑ Victoria Death Index #15243/1924

• http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000995b.htm Adam, George Rothwell Wilson (Rothwell) Encyclopedia of Australian Science
• Sutherland, Roderick Tate (mentored ) go to Obituaries Australia entry
• The Herald (Melbourne, Vic.) Fri 26 Dec 1924 Page 5 DR. ADAM'S DEATH, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/243870922