Hugh ALSTON M.D. [3896]

  General Notes:

Births.
3rd inst., at Dennington, the wife of the Rev E. C. Alston, of a son.
Ipswich Journal 7 November 1857.

ALSTON (HUGH), 5 s. Edward Constable, of Dennington, Suffolk, cler. Oriel Coll,. matric. 17 Oct 1876, aged 18 ; B.A. 1881, Bar-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn, 1883.
Oxoniensis 1715-1886 NZSOG

Alston Hugh. Admitted commoner 14 Oct 1876; caution received L30; matric Oriel 17 Oct 1876; fil 5 tus Edward Constable, de Dunningham Suffolk; Aer 18, Sec. Class in Nat Science, Mich., 1879; BA Oriel 24 Nov 1881; called Bar Lincolns Inn 26 Jan 1883.
Members of Oriel College 1701-1900 NZSOG

Hugh, undergraduate Oriel College Oxford BA, A student of Lincoln's Inn 6 Mar 1880 (then aged 22) Scholarship in Equity 1882, Called to the Bar 26 Jan 1883, Bn 1858 (Address) 60 Longridge Rd SW. 3 New Sq., Lincolns Inn 1883; MRCS., Eng 1892, LRCP Lond., 1892, MD Brux 1892.
Ref: Fosters - Men at the Bar 1885, NZSOG.

Lincolns Inn Admissions 1800-1892 Vol 2
1880 March 6 folio 257.
Hugh Alston of Oriel Coll., Oxford (22), 5 s Rev Edward Constable Alston, late Rector of Dennington Suffolk.

Alston 5th s. Edward Constable b. Nov 1857, a. Jan 1867, l. Apr 1876, Football XI 1874-75, Capt 1875, Oriel Oxon 1876, BA 1879, Called to Bar 1883, Sydney University NSW 1887-91, MRCS England 1892 LRCP London 1892, Medical Practitioner, m.1886.

New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1853-1899 (for Hugh Alston 15 Mar 1890).
Notice of an unclaimed letter GPO Sydney for "Hugh Alston - University"
Also 1 Feb 1887: 2 letters for "Mrs Hugh Alston"

UK & Ireland, Medical Directories, 1845-1942 (1940)
Alston Hugh (Retired) 19 Alton Rd ., Birkenhead. B A Oxen; M D Brux. 1892; M R C S Eng L R C P Lond. 1892; late Res Anaesth. Roy Halifax Infirmary; Asst to V D Clinic & Sen. Cas. Surg. Roy Infirmary Hull; Res Med Off Cas Surgery & Anaesth. W Norfolk Hosp.

Alston Hugh of 19 Alton Road Birkenhead died 11 Nov 1939 Probate London 20 Jan to Louisa Melville Alston widow effects £207 5s 0d
Ref: National Probate Calendar.

  Research Notes:

3 New Square
Lincoln's Inn
6 March /85
My dear Filibic [?]
I am so glad to hear you and your little son are doing well, at any rate it is to be hoped that you will be favoured with warmer and warmer weather every day now \endash We heard from Rowland the other day he is doing very well and has now set up a dairy. His last adventure was very bad but they got out of it safely. He upset them all in his buggy and the wheel went right over his wife's shoulder and the baby's head but they were neither of them in the least. Nana I regret to say is in a very nervous state one day very well and the next day very ill. She is staying with two Miss Bickells, such nice cheerful old ladies who are very kind to her and really if she doesn't feel well there, she won't anywhere. I am well enough but considerably down in the mouth, I can't get any work and I am jolly worried with Nana's illness and the farm and every post seems to bring something disagreeable, a sheep dead or a claim for a little or something wants painting, and now there is every prospect of our income from Maplestead being substantially reduced.
With best love
Ever your affec bro
Hugh Alston.

It is uncertain which of Hugh's siblings he was writing to, the Nana he refers to may well be his own mother ?
One wonders about Hugh's personality, which sounds quite normal above, he obviously had a high interlect being well qualified in two major professions, both with prodigious earning potential. Yet his estate was very modest.

Letter Courtesy Steward Archive - 2018

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 8 Apr 1861, Dennington SFK. Hugh is recorded as a son aged 3 born Dennington

2. Census: England, 31 Mar 1901, High Street Milbourne Port SOM. Hugh is recorded as head of house married aged 43 physician and surgeon born Dennington SFK

Hugh married Louisa Melville WOOD [3897] [MRIN: 1340], daughter of Major General James Creighton WOOD [3898] and Unknown, on 27 Jan 1886 in St George Worthing. (Louisa Melville WOOD [3897] was born about 1862 in India and died on 22 Nov 1944 in Little Waltham ESS.)