Notable South Australians/John Wellesley Flood, B.A., M.B., L.R.C.S.I.
John Wellesley Flood, B.A., M.B., L.R.C.S.I.,
WAS a native of Dublin, and educated at Potosa and "Stockpool Schools. It was his desire to join the Royal Horse Artillery, but owing to a slight defect in his hearing, he was disqualified, and subsequently entered the Dublin University, where he became a distinguished scholar. In the School of Physic, Trinity College, he successfully competed for the medical scholarship and other prizes during his under graduate career, and obtained with much credit his surgical degree at the University. Qualifications of so high a character entitled him to hold no ordinary position in the ranks of his profession, but on account of his health not being robust, he was induced to leave, and as Surgeon of the "Eaton Hall" emigrant ship, he arrived at Port Adelaide in 1878. Feeling that in the country his professional duties would be less laborious than in Adelaide, he purchased the practice of (the late) Dr. Bailey, of Yorketown, where he resided till within a few weeks of his death, which occurred on February 15, 1884, at the early age of thirty-two years. He was greatly esteemed by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. He was a descendant of Henry Flood, the orator, (contemporary of Henry Grattan) and Member of the Irish House of Commons. His uncle, George Moyers, J.P., LL.D., was the last conservative Lord Mayor of Dublin.