Bill O'Hara (footballer, born 1879) explained

Bill O'Hara
Fullname:William Ernest O'Hara
Birth Date:9 January 1879
Birth Place:St Kilda, Victoria
Death Place:Shanghai, China
Statsend:1900
Years1:1900
Games Goals1:13 (3)

William Ernest O'Hara (9 January 1879 – 3 May 1941) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The son of eminent surgeon Henry Michael O'Hara (1853–1921),[2] [3] [4] [5] and his first wife, Ernestine Ellen O'Hara (1857–1883), née Klingender,[6] [7] William Ernest O'Hara was born in St Kilda on 9 January 1879.[8]

Education

Educated at Brighton Grammar School,[9] and at the University of Melbourne,[10] he moved to Edinburgh in 1901 to continue his medical studies and, on 15 December 1905 "William Ernest O'Hara, L.R.S.C.E." was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.[11]

Football

St Kilda (VFL)

Recruited from Collegians Football Club in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA) in 1900,[12] he played his first match for St Kilda, against Melbourne, at the Junction Oval on 5 May 1900.[13] He played well all season and, in all, played 13 games and scored 3 goals.

Although he would otherwise have continued to play, he was not available to St Kilda in the next season (1901), due to his move to Edinburgh to continue his medical studies.[14]

Ulverstone (NWFA)

He joined the Ulverstone Football Club in Tasmania's North Western Football Association (NWFA).

In 1907 he was part of a representative North West Coast team that was thrashed 23.19 (157) to 3.4 (22) by the Melbourne Football Club on its 1907 Tasmanian tour, at Latrobe, on 6 June 1907.[15]

Medicine

Having worked in various U.K. hospitals for a time after his qualification to gain additional experience, he returned to Australia in 1906, and moved to Ulverstone, Tasmania where he practised with Sir John McCall. In addition to his registration in Victoria,[16] on his move to Ulverstone he was also registered in Tasmania:

THE GAZETTE
The "Gazette" of the 5th inst. contains the following notifications:—
Court of Medical Examiners. — William Ernest O'Hara, L.R.C.P. Edin., 1903, L.R.C.S. Edin. 1903, L.F.P.S. Glasg. 1903,[17] F.R.C.S. Edin. 1905, has been registered as a legally-qualified medical practitioner in Tasmania. (Address, Ulverstone.) — The Mercury, 6 June 1906.[18]

He left his practice Ulverstone in June 1907,[19] and moved to Leonora in the West Australian goldfields.[20] In 1911, he left Leonora, and returned to Melbourne in order to take charge of his father's Collins Street practice.[21] [22] In 1912, he was appointed honorary clinical assistant to the out-patient surgeon at The Alfred Hospital.[23]

After World War I, he conducted a medical practice in Shanghai for more than twenty years.[24] [25]

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF on 4 August 1915, and served overseas in the Australian Army Medical Corps.

Death

He died in Shanghai, China on 3 May 1941.[26] [27]

References

Notes and References

  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.670.
  2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1745577 Deaths: O'Hara, The Argus, (Friday, 8 April 1921), p.1.
  3. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/145847938 The Medical Faculty: Representative Melbourne Medicos: No.35. Dr. Henry O'Hara, Table Talk, (Thursday, 25 August 1904), p.11.
  4. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1745649 Death of Dr. O'Hara, The Argus, (Friday, 8 April 1921), p.6
  5. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ohara-henry-michael-7892 Mitchell, A.M., "O'Hara, Henry Michael (1853–1921)", in G. Serle (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11: Nes-Smi, Melbourne University Press, (Carlton), 1988
  6. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5903059 Marriages: O'Hara—Klingender, The Argus, (Wednesday, 20 September 1876), p.1.
  7. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11831652 Deaths: O'Hara, The Argus, (Monday, 15 October 1883), p.1.
  8. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199360180 Births: O'Hara, The Age, (Friday, 10 January 1879), p.1.
  9. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/139710844 The Matriculation Lists, The Australasian, (Saturday, 8 June 1985), p.33.
  10. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138612928 Melbourne University: Annual Examination—December, 1899: Second Year Medicine, The Australasian, (Saturday, 30 December 1899) p.36.
  11. https://archive.org/details/dublinjournalme72unkngoog/page/n78 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Vol.121, No.409, (1 January 1906), p.70.
  12. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/241268366 Football, The Herald, (Friday, 11 May 1900), p.3.
  13. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9540366 A Draw or a Win?, The Age, (Monday, 7 May 1900), p.6.
  14. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/144681465 The Prahran Telegraph, Saturday, 4 May 1901.
  15. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202636891 Football: Coast v. Melbourne, The North West Post, (Thursday, 6 June 1907), p.3
  16. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/209223957 Personal Items, The Ballarat Star, (Monday, 15 January 1906), p.6.
  17. In other words, he acquired the "Triple Qualification" in 1903.
  18. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12752809 The Gazette, The Mercury, (Wednesday, 6 June 1906), p.5.
  19. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64828233 Dr. O'Hara's Departure: An Ulverstone Farewell, The North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay Times, (Monday, 17 June 1907), p.4.
  20. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/25709019 Personal, The West Australian, (Tuesday, 30 July 1907), p.5.
  21. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57706650 Perth Prattle, The (Perth) Sunday Times, (Sunday, 8 January 1911), p.26
  22. "Mr. Henry O'Hara will be away from Melbourne until the end of the year. During his absence Dr W.E. O'Hara will attend to the practice. Cromwell House, 8th October, 1913." Special Advertisements, The Herald, (Friday, 10 October 1913), p.6.
  23. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197401005 About People, The Age, (Saturday, 9 March 1912), p.13.
  24. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128168188 In Far Shanghai: Australians Pay Homage To Their War Dead, The (Sydney) Sunday Times, (Sunday, 26 April 1925), p.7.
  25. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48353951 Melbourne Man Compensated, The Barrier Miner, (Wednesday, 10 July 1940), p,3.
  26. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205164223 Deaths: O'Hara, The Age, (Tuesday, 6 May 1941), p.1.
  27. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/817385 Died in Shanghai, The Argus, (Tuesday, 6 May 1941), p.5

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