Obituary of Phillip Harris

Obituary: Phillip Vallentine Tobias (1925-2012).

Phillip V. Tobias died on June 7, 2012 in Johannesburg at Wits University Donald Gordon Medical Centre, at the age of 86. Phillip Tobias was born in Durban, Natal, Republic of South Africa, on October 14, 1925, the only son and second child of Joseph Newman Tobias (who was born in Portsmouth, England) and Fanny Rosendorff (who was born in Edenburg, Orange Free State). He learned to read by the ...

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Whaling , Modern Phillip

At the time that Melville wrote Moby Dick, the basic technology of whaling had remained essentially unchanged for centuries. Whaling ships plied their trade under sail, and the small boats that they lowered to pursue whales were also powered by wind, or by the brute strength of their crew’s arms at the oars. The killing of whales required men to bring their frail craft alongside the huge quarry...

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Mrs. Meiklejohn, of St. Paul's, Upper Maze M, Ston January 29th. Her life was spent for the weitare ? many parents could testify to the devotion w i ^ defective children, and She was the first to realise the special _n country. For many years she she opened the first home for such children in defective children, and of was the Principal of this home, and of a home 10 wQmen> another home for dif...

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Donkin was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and thence went to Queen's College, Oxford, as an open scholar, graduating in the first class of the Classical Tripos. He graduated as M.B., Oxon, in 1873, and became a F.R.C.P. Lon. in 1880, and during his active professional life held many important appointments and was Harveian Orator in 1910. He was physician and lecturer on Medicine at W...