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    John Huxham (1692–1768) was an English physician, a provincial doctor notable for his study of fevers. In 1750 Huxham published his Essay on Fevers and...
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    John Saunders Huxham (14 May 1861 – 4 August 1949) was an accountant and a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Huxham was born in Ivybridge...
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  • (later renamed Beach Bird) was a merchant brig under the command of John Huxham (or Husham or Durham). In 1750 or 1760 the ship grounded herself at Easton's...
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    scientific description of "Devonshire colic" – it was later referred to by John Huxham and Sir George Baker. However, the precise cause was not discovered until...
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  • contemporaneous accounts of the heat wave noting its effects. Physician John Huxham wrote An Account of the Extraordinary Heat of the Weather in July 1757...
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    or 1760 – The SV Sea Bird: This merchant brig, under the command of John Huxham (or Husham or Durham), grounded herself at Easton's Beach, Rhode Island...
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    51287. ISBN 978-0-7277-5128-7. Retrieved 21 March 2021. Spry, Edward; John Huxham (1755–56). "An Account of the Case of a Man Who Died of the Effects of...
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    1969. ISBN 9780719003707. Retrieved 2009-01-29. "Oxford DNB article:Huxham, John (subscription needed)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed...
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    Blyth, 1877–1891 John Cox Bray, 1892–1894 Thomas Playford II, 1894–1898 Sir John Cockburn, 1898–1901 Henry Allerdale Grainger, 1901–1905 John Jenkins, 1905–1908...
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  • took place in 1923 in the attendance of Queensland Education Minister John Huxham, and William Forgan Smith, then Queensland Minister for Public Works...
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    by this family, which died out in the male line in the 13th century. John Huxham, the surgeon and doctor, was born here in 1672. "ONS 2001 census". Archived...
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  • Century. Routledge. p. 58. ISBN 0-415-17611-5. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Huxham, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder &...
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    2017) was officially opened by the Minister for Public Instruction, John Huxham, on 24 January 1921. Block D was set on concrete piers and was roofed...
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    and Infants' State School. The previous year, Minister for Education, John Huxham, said he knew of only one teacher in the state who was interested in...
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    named on 21 August 1919 by the Queensland Railways Department after John Saunders Huxham, the Home Secretary of Queensland. Spring Creek (23°35′00″S 150°10′00″E...
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    By 1931 there were 2035 books. The Minister for Public Instruction, John Huxham, was also present at the opening ceremony. He had apparently promised...
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  • Thomas Mudge invents the lever escapement for timepieces. Copley Medal: John Huxham January 28 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Prussian physician, anatomist...
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    the Creche and Kindergarten Association lobbied the Home Secretary, John Huxham to establish a network of baby clinics in Queensland. In August 1917...
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    to four) Queensland baby clinics was announced by the Home Secretary John Huxham in August 1917. At that time there were 11 clinics in New South Wales...
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    1907-1908 Peter Airey Kidstonites 1908 Independent Opposition 1908–1909   John Huxham Labour 1908–1909   Thomas Bouchard Liberal 1909–1912   James Allan Liberal...
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    Brisbane South In office 2 October 1909 – 27 April 1912 Preceded by John Huxham Succeeded by Thomas Bouchard Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly...
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    Hanson was born in Woolloongabba, Brisbane on 5 September 1878, the son of John Hanson and his wife Mary Ann (née Castree). He served in the Second Boer...
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    first scientific description of ‘Devonshire colic’ (later referred to by John Huxham and George Baker). His other writings included Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae...
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    the Minister for Education, Herbert Hardacre, and the Home Secretary, John Huxham, at an official ceremony on 29 July 1916. The building was 51 by 21 feet...
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  • During the term, David Bowman, a former leader of the Labor Party, died; John Adamson left the Ministry and the Labor Party over the conscription issue;...
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    "Kidstonites", he was defeated at the 1907 Queensland state election by John May but was almost immediately appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council...
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  • John Huxham Secretary for Public Works (until 7 April 1920) Secretary for Railways (from 7 April 1920) James Larcombe Minister without portfolio John...
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    Secretary as part the Ryan Ministry. However, his health was so poor that John Huxham became his assistant minister. Bowman married Elizabeth Jane Fisher on...
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  • Warrego. On 16 August 1924, Ted Hanson (Labor) was elected to succeed John Huxham (Labor), who had resigned on 31 July 1924, as the member for Buranda...
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  • Member Party Term detail   John Huxham Labor 1912–1924   Ted Hanson Labor 1924–1947   Dick Brown Labor 1947–1957   Keith Hooper Liberal 1957–1960...
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