Herbert Macandrew (ca. 1858 – 15 January 1917) was a New Zealand doctor and medical superintendent of the

Seaview Asylum The Seaview Asylum (also known as Seaview Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital located to the north of Hokitika, in the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island, adjacent to the former Westland Hospital. Open from 1872 to 2009, Seaview tra ...

in Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island. Dr Herbert Macandrew

Macandrew's father was the politician James Macandrew and he was one of four brothers and four sisters. He was born in

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and attended

Otago Boys High School , motto_translation = "The ‘right’ learning builds a heart of oak" , type = State secondary, day and boarding , established = ; years ago , streetaddress= 2 Arthur Street , region = Dunedin , state = Otago , zipcod ...

. He studied medicine at the

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; after graduating in 1883 he worked at an asylum in

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. He was assistant medical officer at Seacliff Asylum and from 1887 was medical superintendent at

in Hokitika for 28 years. He and his wife had one son and two daughters. Macandrew died of cancer on 15 January 1917 aged 57 in Hokitika. He is buried in the Hokitika Cemetery.

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Photo of Herbert Macandrew in National Library
{{DEFAULTSORT:Macandrew, Herbert 1858 births 1917 deaths Burials at Hokitika Cemetery People educated at Otago Boys' High School 19th-century New Zealand medical doctors 20th-century New Zealand medical doctors