Surname: CROWTHER

Given Names: William Lodewyk

Title and Honours: Dr

Qualifications: MRCS, LRCP 1841 (London)

Date and Place of Birth:15 April 1817 - Netherlands

Date of Death: 12 April 1885 - Hobart, Tasmania

House of Assembly: 27 October 1866

Electorate: Hobart Town

Party:

Positions Held: Premier 1878-79

Date of Departure: December 1866

Reason for Departure: Resigned.

Legislative Council: 22 March 1869

Electorate: Hobart

Party:

Positions Held:

Date of Departure: 12 April 1885

Reason for Departure: Died in office.

Comments: Father of Edward Crowther MHA. Suspended from medical practice for mutilation of body of 'last male Tasmanian aborigine'. Crowther Collection at the State Library is named after him - http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/whathave/librarycoll/researchandref/wlcrowther .

House of Assembly Long Room Picture: 93