William Kington FYFFE   
MA (Camb), MB BCh (Camb), LCA (Lond), MRCP (Lond), MD (Lond)
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Born Dublin 25/3/1863    Died Wellington 26/4/1920

Educated at Clifton College and at Caius College, Cambridge

BA (Camb) 1885, MA (Camb), MB BCh (Camb) 1890, LCA (Lond) 1890, MRCP (Lond) 1893, MD (Lond)

Acland Prize in Clinical Medicine, St Georges Hospital Medical School

Assistant HP and Assistant Registrar, St Georges Hospital 1891
HP, St Georges Hospital, London 1892-1893
Pathology and Medical Registrar, City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Victoria Park 1894
HP and Medical Registrar, St Georges Hospital 1895
Medical Registrar, St Georges Hospital 1896
West end practice for a time until poor health prompted him to emigrate.

First registered as a medical practitioner in NZ 29/12/1896.
Established private practice in Wellington.
Organist & choirmaster, St Peters Church for 20 years.

Honorary Pathologist, Wellington Hospital 1898 - 1902
Appointed Sanitary Commissioner, Wellington District in 1900, at the time of a plague scare

Honorary Visiting Physician, Wellington Hospital 1912 - 1919

WW1 service, Major NZMC, wounded at Gallipoli

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Obituary: NZMJ 1920 19:155

photograph courtesy
Home of Compassion, Wellington