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- Dr. WILLIAM HAMPDEN BRODIE Dr. William Hampden Brodie, 1855-1909, above-mentioned, was a medial gentleman well known on the Rand, where he was highly esteemed. He graduated M.B., C.M., at Aberdeen University, 1880, and M.D. two years later. He afterwards visited America, and subsequently proceeding to Johannesburg in the early days, he took an active part in the work of the Reform Committee, holing as he did strong sympathies with that movement. He served during the South African War as medical officer on the hospital ship, Lismore Castle, and No 6. General Hospital, Johannesburg. He had also been medical officer of the W.N.L.A., and of the Ferreira group of mines, and till recently had been acting as medical adviser to the Central Administration.
The cause of death was pneumonia, with which Dr. Brodie was struck down only a few days before his death. The Transvaal Leader, |referring to Dr. Brodie, says:—“He will he affectionately remembered by the many hundreds who had from him the benefit of the medical skill which a. winning and sympathetic personality made doubly helpful. Also as a member of the Reform Committee he wrote his name into the political records of his day. It was simply from a patriotic motive, and with the view of rendering what he felt to be his duty as a citizen, that he joined the Reformers. No man in Johannesburg could have been freer from hitter feeling against his fellow colonists belonging to the older population. Least of all had he any thought of calling in external force against the then Government. He remarked, indeed, to a friend of the present writer that he would never have associated himself with the Reform movement had he suspected there was to be a raid at the back of it.
At the same time he felt like his co-Reformers, that the Johannesburg people would not continue to accept the status of out- landers without sacrifice of their self-respect. Nobody had a stouter heart for the risks of revolution, and when these risks matured he made light of his imprisonment as holiday he had needed for a good many years. His sane outlook on life, his cheerful humour and kindly temperament endeared him to a large circle who, through their sense of what they must miss themselves, are able to appreciate the greater loss which has fallen on his widow and children."
The funeral of Dr. Brodie, which took place to Bramfontein Cemetery, -Johannesburg, on Thursday, May 13th, 1909, was attended by a very large gathering of mourners, including many of the leading men of the community. Rev. Frank Collyer of the Congregational Church of which Dr. Brodie was an ardent member~—conducted the funeral service. Mr Collyer remarked on the sterling qualities of the deceased, whose life, he said, was an example to them all. He married in 1882, Rachael Peterson, youngest daughter of the late Baillie William Paterson, Aberdeen, by his wife Rachael Wyllie, and had one son and two daughters. Baillie Paterson, wholesale and manufacturing chemist, Gallowgate, Aberdeen, entered the Town Council of Aberdeen 5th November, 1861, was elected a magistrate in 1864, and continued in office till his death in the summer of 1866.
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1855 - 1909 (53 years)
