FIASCHI, THOMAS HENRY (1853-1927), surgeon, and PIERO FRANCIS BRUNO (1879-1948), medical practitioner, were father and son. Thomas was born on 31 May 1853 at Florence, Italy, son of Lodovico Fiaschi, a professor of mathematics at the University of Florence, and his English-born wife Clarissa, née Fisher, who had tutored the children of Prince Corsini of Florence. He enrolled at the university as a medical student and at 21 left for Australia, where he was on the north Queensland goldfields before becoming a 'house surgeon' at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. At Bethel House, George Street, Sydney, on 17 February 1876 he married with Congregational forms Irish-born Catherine Ann Reynolds, a nun from St Vincent's. They returned to Florence where in 1877 he graduated M.D. and Ch.D. (Pisa and Florence). Their first son, Lodovico (d.1944), who was mentally retarded, was born there. In 1878 Thomas was licensed ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography