DR. G. E. ANSON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 166, 16 July 1934, Page 3

DR. G. E. ANSON.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sunday. The death occurred to-day of Dr. G. E. Anson, at the age of S4. One of a family of 14, Dr. Anson was born in Derbyshire, where his father was rector of Sudbury, and lie was educated at preparatory schools, at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1573. In his choice of a career he was divided between farming and medicine, and finally he decided to join an old friend who was farming in Now Zealand.

In 1874 Dr. Anson came to New Zealand, and, after studying farming with Mr. John Marshall, of Tututotara, Marton, he purchased a property of 500 acres, which ho named Sudbury. After several years he accepted the position of second master of Wanganui Collegiate School, and ho remained there until 1883, when he returned to England to complete his medical studies. He obtained his M.D. degree in 1889, and then followed service at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, and on the old colonial liners Rimutaka, Aorangi and Kaikoura.

Dr. Anson bought the practice of the late Dr. W. G. Kemp in Wellington in 1891, and from then until 1930 practised his profession. During the same period he held the position of chief medical officer of the A.M.P. Society in New Zealand. He was a member of the directorate of the Wellington Publishing Company, publishers of the "Dominion" since its inception, and for many years, until his health failed in 1931, was chairman of the board.

Dr. Anson played for Wellington against Southerton's All-England cricket team in the 'seventies.