From Stoneyford, County Antrim to Coleraine, Australia: Samuel Connor, MD.

Samuel Connor was born on 17 June 1861, the fourth son of John Connor, a Presbyterian, and prosperous tenant-farmer, from Stoneyford, County Antrim. The latter's brother was a medical practitioner in Newry, County Down and it was he who persuaded his nephew and namesake to adopt medicine as a career. The article is divided into an autobiographical account of Connor's minority, written on 3 May 1882, on board the 'Superb', an emigrant vessel, bound for Melbourne, Australia, and a brief description of Connor's career in the Victorian country town of Coleraine. The former provides a glimpse of the life of the strong farming class in Ulster, as well as an interesting perspective on medical student life and career prospects in Ireland in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, while the latter suggests the possibilities of contemporary practice in the Australian colony of Victoria.'