William Guybon (Dr) ATHERSTONE

1814 - 1898  (84 years)

• Name	William Guybon (Dr) ATHERSTONE
  Born	29 May 1814	Englend
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 Jun 1898	Grahamstown
  Person ID	I30511	Families of the Overberg
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2019

  
  

  Father	John (Dr) ATHERSTONE,   b. 25 Jan 1791, Nottingham ,   d. 12 May 1855, Grahamstown  (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth DAMANT,   b. 1783, England
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1 Jan 1811	St John's Westminster
  Family ID	F3354	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Handel ATHERSTONE,   d. Oct 1889
  Married	1839	England
  Children	1. Gertrude ATHERSTONE  [natural]   2. Mary Catherine ATHERSTONE,   b. 1840, Grahamstown ,   d. 18 Dec 1887, Grahamstown  (Age 47 years)  [natural]   3. Guybon Damant ATHERSTONE,   b. 22 Jun 1843, Grahamstown ,   d. 15 Feb 1912, Grahamstown  (Age 68 years)  [natural]   4. Ida ATHERSTONE,   b. 14 Jun 1845,   d. 27 Jun 1931, Port Alfred  (Age 86 years)  [natural]   5. Walter Herschel ATHERSTONE,   b. 1856, Grahamstown ,   d. 11 Apr 1941, Port Alfred  (Age 85 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2019
  Family ID	F4017	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He was born in Sion Hill, Nottingham. He had amazing talents and apart fr om becoming a noted medical man, he was also ageologist, prospector, palae ontologist, naturalist, musician and artist.. He was apprenticed to his doctor father and continued his studies in Irela nd during 1836-7 and graduated in Heidelberg, Germany in 1839 and then ret urned to SA to become his father's partner. On 16 06 1847 he performed t he first operation, an amputation, outside Europe and USA with the u se of an anaesthetic. William was responsible for the founding of the Botanical Gardens, the lib rary, the Albany museum and in 1875 the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum.. In March 1867 he identified the shiny pebble picked up by Erasmus Stephan us Jacobs on the farm De Kalk near Hopetown as a 21 carat diamond. He was a member of the House of Assembly (1881-3), member of the Legislati ve Council (1884-90) and President of SA Medical Congress 1896. When he died in Thursford House, Beaufort Street. he had been blind for so me time. Estate MOOC 6/9/378 R1907