Arthur Gideon Hugh
Colquhoun
Male
Australia
1866-00-00
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
1934-04-19
Mitiamo, Victoria, Australia
From The Yass Tribune Courier (New South Wales), 5 May 1934
Obituary – Dr Alfred Colquhoun
The news of the death of Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun, which took place on 19 April at Mitiamo, Victoria, was received with keen regret by his Yass friends. The deceased was about 71 years of age, and is survived by his widow, who is residing in Melbourne. The doctor had no children. A graduate of Melbourne University, he took his M.B.B.S. degree in 1888 and M.D. in 1898.
The late Dr Colquhoun was a resident of Yass for some fourteen years and he made an army of friends throughout the town and district. He left Yass in August 1927 and since then had resided in Victoria. A man who had seen the world and mixed with his fellow men, he was interesting to meet and know. Although the years have passed since he left Yass, the memory of him is as keen as ever in the minds of those who knew and mourn him. He was a fine type of citizen and one who ever took a keen interest in local affairs, although he was a busy professional man. His departure was a distinct loss to the town.
The late Dr Colquhoun was a man of high ideals, and one not afraid to speak strongly in support of them. It came as a great shock to the residents of the district when it was known that he had decided to leave Yass, on account of his health. He was such a prominent citizen that he had come to be regarded as almost an institution, and it was never anticipated he would leave the district. As the doctor said at his farewell, he had hoped to live in Yass for the rest of his life. “He had spent the happiest years of his life in Yass and it was a great grief to leave, but he could not stand up to the work.”
Dr Colquhoun took a particularly keen interest in the District Hospital, and was responsible to a large extent for its progress. To the hospital he devoted years of voluntary service. At his public farewell from Yass the then mayor, Alderman Duffy, said he and the late Dr English “had set a standard that, perhaps, the younger doctors might find it hard to live up to.”
Dr Colquhoun was a keen sportsman and a strong supporter of the Yass Picnic Race Club, of which he was a very popular president. He was also a strong supporter of the Soldiers’ Club, and was given a great reception on the night of his farewell. The doctor spent his last evening in Yass at the club, and there was never a more genuine farewell for the doctor was regarded as one of the mainstays of the club. It is melancholy now to recall the closing words of his response to a presentation made to him: “As long as I live, God knows, it might be long, it might be short, but I will always have the pleasantest recollections of my association to this club.”
The years that have passed since then have seen the passing of some of the doctor’s closest friends, especially the late Mr J.D. Hill and Mr D’Arcy Bucknell, but hundreds of friends, old and young, still remain and will always retain the kindliest of memories of the late Dr Arthur Colquhoun.
1887 - 1910
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1889 - New South Wales Championships (Amateur)
1889 - Buckley Trophy (Amateur)
1888 - Victorian Championships (Amateur)
1887 - Victorian Championships (Amateur)
Round 1
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
M. Ulrich
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Georges Manset 1 *
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun
6-4
11-9
Round 1
Percy Everett Banting 1 *
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun
6-2
2-6
6-2
Round 1
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
H.F. Overbury
6-3
5-6
4-2
ret.
Quarterfinals
Benjamin (Ben) Green 1 *
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun
6-5
6-1
Round 1
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Gustav Hugo Leibius
10-8
6-4
8-6
Quarterfinals
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Alfred Harold Huntley
6-3
6-1
6-0
Semifinals
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Herbert Eltolt Webb
6-4
6-2
6-2
Final
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Charles William (Charlie) Cropper
6-4
7-9
6-3
6-2
Challenge Round
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Alfred Dudley (Dudley) Webb
6-2
0-6
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Haworth William Bartram
6-1
6-1
11-9
Semifinals
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Ernest Raleigh
6-4
6-1
6-0
Final
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Norman Bayles
2-6
6-2
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Henry Francis De Little
6-3
10-8
6-2
Semifinals
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Gus Kearney
6-1
6-3
6-1
Final
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
John Thorneycroft Hartley
6-3
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Percy Brereton Colquhoun
6-0
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Sir Edward William Wallington
6-2
7-5
3-6
6-4
Semifinals
Alfred Dudley (Dudley) Webb 1 *
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun
2-6
6-2
6-4
6-8
6-4
Round 1
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Allan MacLachlan
6-2
6-3
Round 2
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Louis Australia Whyte
5-6
6-1
6-0
Quarterfinals
Gus Kearney 1 *
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun
6-3
6-5
Round 1
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Alexander Francis (Alec) Chomley
6-1
6-1
7-5
Quarterfinals
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Ernest Raleigh
6-2
7-5
6-1
Semifinals
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Charles William (Charlie) Cropper
?
Final
Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun 1 *
Walter Timon Coldham
6-1
7-5
6-8
0-6
6-4