Biographical entry Smart, Thomas Christie (1816 - 1896)

Summary

Thomas Christie Smart was a surgeon at many of Tasmania's hospitals including the Hospital for the Insane in New Norfolk, the Queen's Asylum for destitute children at New Town and the General Hospital in Hobart. He was also a member and one-time president of the Court of Medical Examiners and a member of the Board of Commissioners for the Cascades Hospital for the Insane. Smart was not only a successful and well regarded medical practitioner, but he was also an adept politician. He spent around five years in the Legislative Council and was Alderman (1868-1869) and Mayor (1870) of Hobart. Some of his papers and records are held by the University of Tasmania Library.

Details

Events

1842

Education - Medical studies completed at the Extra Academical School of Medicine in Scotland and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons

1842 - 1856

Career position - Arrived in Melbourne as Medical Officer and was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the convict probation station at Fingal, Van Diemen's Land

1849

Career position - Appointed Justice of the Peace

1856 -

Career position - Private practice in Hobart Town

1860 -

Career position - Honorary Medical Officer at the General Hospital in Hobart

1860 - 1868

Career position - Surgeon to the Volunteer Force of the City Guards

1862 - 1864

Career position - Medical Officer at the Queen's Asylum for destitute children at New Town

1864 -

Career position - Member of the Court of Medical Examiners

1868 - 1869

Career position - Alderman of Hobart

1870

Career position - Mayor of Hobart

1871 - 1873

Career position - Trustee of the Tasmanian Public Library

1875

Award - Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), Edinburgh

1878 - 1884

Career position - Member of the Board of Commissioners for the Cascades Hospital for the Insane

1879 -

Career position - Chairman of the hospital's Board of Management and Visiting Committee

1879 - 1894

Career position - Trustee of the Tasmanian Public Library

1881 - 1886

Career position - Elected to the Legislative Council

1882 - 1884

Career position - Government Minister

1884

Career position - President of the Court of Medical Examiners

1886

Career position - Resigned from the Legislative Council

1886

Career position - Manager of the Hospital for the Insane in New Norfolk

1892 - 1893

Career position - Medical Officer at the Hospital for Insane in Hobart

1895 - 1896

Career position - Medical Officer at the Hospital for Insane in Hobart

Archival resources

Archives Office of Tasmania

• Thomas Christie Smart - Records; Archives Office of Tasmania. Details

University of Tasmania Library

• Thomas Christie Smart - Records, 1884; University of Tasmania Library. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Bolger, Peter, 'Smart, Thomas Christie (1816-1896)', in Bede Nairn (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 6, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1976, pp. 137-138. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060157b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Smart, Thomas Christie', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464275. Details