About Herbert Macandrew
Lived 1859 – 1917 (aged 57–58). Herbert Macandrew was a New Zealand physician.
Herbert Macandrew ( 1858 – 15 January 1917) was a New Zealand medical doctor and medical officer of the Seaview Asylum in Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island.
Macandrew's father was the politician James Macandrew and he was one of four brothers and four sisters.
He was born in Dunedin and attended Otago Boys High School. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh; after graduating in 1883 he worked at an asylum in Shrewsbury.
He and his wife had one son and two daughters.
Macandrew died of cancer on 15 January 1917 aged 57 in Hokitika. He is buried in the Hokitika Cemetery.
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Who was Herbert Macandrew?
New Zealand doctor (1859–1917)
When was Herbert Macandrew born?
Herbert Macandrew was born in 1859 in Dunedin.
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Herbert Macandrew died in 1917 in Hokitika.
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Herbert Macandrew was a physician.
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Herbert Macandrew was New Zealand.
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