Thomas Lovegrove

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Biographical information"Thomas Henry Lovegrove was born in Sussex in 1845. In 1867 he was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and appointed a medical officer in the Western Australian Convict Service by the Imperial Government. He was stationed at Bunbury as Resident Medical Officer and later gazetted Police Magistrate for the Blackwood district and created a Justice of the Peace. For several years, he captained the Bunbury Mounted Volunteers, succeeding Captain Rose. He acted in 1885 as Resident Magistrate and Chairman of the Court of Petty Sessions. For nine years, he was chairman of the Education Board for the Wellington district. For three years, he was chairman of the local Roads Board and, for over three years, was chairman of the Bunbury Agricultural Society.

For five years, from 1885, Dr Lovegrove was appointed Government Resident, magistrate, and mining warden at Kimberley while also attending to public health questions. In 1890/91, Dr Lovegrove was Acting Colonial Surgeon with duties including chairman of the Medical Board and chairman of the Central Board of Health. Subsequently, Dr Lovegrove returned as a resident medical officer and police magistrate at Blackwood. Here, the Mounted Volunteer Corps having been disbanded, he set to work and formed the Bunbury Rifle Volunteers, himself taking the command.

In 1895, Thomas Lovegrove was appointed Colonial Surgeon (later Principal Medical Officer for Western Australia). As such as part of his duties to visit, supervise and see to the proper maintenance of Hospitals at Fremantle, Bunbury, York, Northam,
Geraldton, Derby, Roebourne, Wyndham, Vasse, Albany, Newcastle, Esperance, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Menzies, Cue, Hall's Greek. Guildford, and Beverley. Concurrently he was District Coroner for Perth and Fremantle. On two occasions, he has represented Western Australia at inter-colonial conferences." [From Army Museum of Western Australia]

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Thomas Henry Lovegrove (source: Wikisource citing W. B. Kimberly's 'History of Western Australia').

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