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Testimonial to Dr. Bowker 1854
| Dr.Bowker resided in Newcastle for many years. The Subscription List below includes many of Newcastle's early citizens. ADDRESS TO DR. BOWKER The following address was presented to Dr. Bowker at his Residence Newcastle yesterday, the 3rd February, prior to his departure for England: To R. R S. Bowker, Esq., M.D., Newcastle, Newcastle, Feb1 1854 Dear Sir, - Having heard, with much sorrow of your intention going to England - We, the undersigned are anxious to express to you our sincere hopes that your contemplated voyage may be happy and prosperous, and also that you may find all your friends and relatives at home in the enjoyment of health and happiness. When we reflect upon the high position which you have achieved in this Colony in connection with our profession, and, furthermore, consider that you have thereby added honor to our City, we venture to express a wish that you may soon return to us. In memory of the high opinion which we entertain of your abilities, and of the urbanity which has rendered your professional services acceptable to all who have experienced them, and in admiring the many kind and generous actions performed amongst us, together with your benevolent and gratuitous attendance to the City and District Hospital since its formation, we beg to subscribe our names Charles Pleydell Neil Wilton. M.A.; Charles Simpson J. P; John Bingle, J. P; Thomas McClelland; J. E. Stacy J. P; Henry W. Cotton; C.V. Dowling C.C.; Simon Kemp; Alexander Livingston; John Nott; John Bingle junior; James G. Sughrue; Joseph Croft; Henry Baker; William Donaldson; Francis W. Lodge; George Tully; John Swaine; Alexander Flood; A. J. Ellis; W.S. Laurence; Robert Fisher; Wm H. Whyte; Joseph Spragg; James Brown; Alexander Brown; William Farthing; J. N. B. Miller; James McClune; George Charles Boyce; W. T. Boyce; Edw. L. Cooke; William Page; John Macara; Alexander Brown; John Rodgers; A. Tighe; Thomas Buxton; William Greaves; Henry Lambourne; Thomas Groves; Robert Tighe; Henry Mahew; George Gardner; John Baker; Mark Soloman; Henry Chaff; William Richardson; Jesse Hannell; John Devenold; John Ford; Thomas Cooper; William Smith; Robert McPhail; Henry Usher; James Robertson; Ewen McPherson, J. P; J. M. Saunders; John Howard; Denis Murphy; Wm. Ewbank; John Pearse; Samuel Langham; J. V .M. Weiss; Michael Dwyer; William Salisbury; Beresford Hudson; Thomas McPhail; Montague Parnell; Wm. Corner; J. Anderson; J. Frame; H. Maine; C. B. Ranclaud; George Bright; James McKensey; Joshua Tifney; Henry Dalby; P.M. Mackay, Walter Bain Hannah; Robert Donaldson; John Roberts; James Steel, senior; James Steel junior; James Boyle; William P. Wilson; Walter K. Graham; William Murphy; Robert Harvey; Henry M. Tompkins; William Henderson; William West; James Towers; Samuel Holt; William Chester; George Mitchell; Charles Gedye; Charles T. Butcher; Frances Mahew; Thomas McCormack; Charles Sendder; Montague Cooke; Isaac Eggleson; Peter Fleming; James Sharkett; Henry Webb; William Anthony; Thomas Bridges; Thomas Smith; George Cooper; Frederick Healy.REPLY Newcastle February 3 1854 My Dear Friends - It has been my good fortune to have received many distinguished honors, both in the way of prizes when at College, and also from the committee of the public institution to which I was attached when a younger man, and I felt grateful and proud on the receipt of each of them, but you have conferred on me an honor far surpassing all hitherto, in giving me so flattering and handsome an address, numerously, I may say universally, as it is signed by the highest as well as by those in a more humble sphere. I may well be proud of it. I assure you I shall endeavour to preserve it to the day of my death, and shall hand it down to those I may hold most dear, as my "monumentum aere perennius". Most of my former honors were proofs of success in acquiring the means to be used in obtaining a great object . This I esteem as a proof of success, in having obtained the very end itself. I have, I hear, surprised some of my friends and offended others, by my having declined to receive either a dinner or other costly token of regard. What token could compare with what you have given me in such an encomium? Besides, you have for years been giving me what I consider a comparative fortune, and I could not bring myself to be a tax on you further. I most cordially reciprocate your kind wishes for my health and happiness; may I find you on my return amongst you in the enjoyment of life and prosperity. I assure you I shall endeavour to improve my powers of being useful, to increase my knowledge of a profession which I deem second to none in glory, nobleness, or usefulness, by visiting the best medical schools, and by carefully watching and studying the practice of those who are thought the greatest in the world in the art of healing In conclusion, I beg to state that I have made the best arrangements I could in order to prevent inconvenience during my short absence, which I do not intend to exceed eleven months. I hope at the end of that time to resume my practice amongst you, and also the office of Surgeon to the Hospital, which you have carried on so well, to the great advantage and comfort of the poor in their hours of affliction. I remain my Dear Friends, Your most obedient servant. R. R. S. Bowker. |
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