OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20296, 4 May 1934, Page 7

OBITUARY.

Dr D. Eardley Fenwick. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 4. The death occurred suddenly’ to-day of Dr D. Eardley Fenwick, one of the best known medical men in New Zealand. Dr David Eardley Fenwick, 0.8. E., was born in Dunedin in 1887, a son of Sir George Fenwick. He was educated at the Otago Boyds’ High School and Otago University. Later he went or to Middlesex Hospital, London, where, he gained his M.D. and M.R.C.P. (London). While at the Boy’s’ High School he played for the senior fifteen and the senior eleven, and at the University he captained the Rugby fifteen., and toured in Australia with a University representative team. He served throughout the war in the R.A.M.C. and N.Z.M.C., attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was consulting physician to the New Zealand forces and to the Military Hospital, Trentham. For a time he was officer commanding the Queen Mary Hospital for nervous diseases at Hanraer Springs. AI the time of his death he was honorary physician to the Wellington Hospital. At one time he was examiner in medicine to the New Zealand University’. In 1928 he was on the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis in New Zealand, and was chairman of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association from 1930 to 1931. He contributed several articles to medical journals.