Gordon Gwynne (1810-1865)

Obituary
DEATH OF DR. GWYNNE. It is my painful duty to record the death of Dr. Gwynne, an old and esteemed inhabitant of this town, which took place at his residence on Sunday morning last. Dr. Gwynne, whose name is familiar to the ears of almost every colonist, was celebrated as a surgeon of very extraordinary ability, and his well-earned fame as such has gone out through the length and breadth of the Austrilian colonies. The doctor, although a man of eccentric and very peculiar character, was a man who had a heart overflowing with sympathy and kindly feeling for his fellow man, and the charitable acts recorded of him are innumerable. To the poor he was a kind friend. Oh ! how bitterly will many of the poor of our district, who have oftentimes had occasion to bless him for his timely, gratuitous, and never-withheld medical assistance and advice, lament the loss of their "friend in need and friend indeed." Those people, too, who are afflicted with diseases of the eye, how they will miss him. Some of the cures of opthalmic diseases which he has performed have been really wonderful, and there are many living witnesses of the doctor's great skill in this particular branch of his profession. The remains of this lamented gentleman were interred at Newtown Cemetery on Wednesday last, in accordance with a wish expressed by him some time previously to his death, and in the presence of a number of his intimate friends, who went from Parramatta and the district, to pay the last tribute of respect to one whom in life they so highly valued.

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