Harman Tarrant

[2] He trained as a medical doctor in Dublin, London, Paris and Edinburgh, and was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

[1][5] In 1890 was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council,[6] where he remained until his seat was declared vacant on 12 May 1896 because he had been absent for 2 complete sessions.

Tarrant would later have a relationship with Sheridan's widow, Louise Davenport,[9][10] with an obituary stating that "his downfall began when he became so hopelessly infatuated with a woman as to disappear with her from the scene of social, professional, and political distinctions which he had honorably won".

[13] He applied to be discharged from bankruptcy, with Justice Walker finding that he had borrowed money in 1892 to invest in a speculative mining venture in Queensland for Bismuth, used for treating an upset stomach, when there was no reasonable expectation he would be able to repay the money and that he left Sydney in circumstances that were prejudicial to his ability to pay his creditors.

[14] On his return to Sydney he widely promoted his claim to a "new method of healing",[16][17] with advertisements funded by a partnership of C J Browning and William Charles Green and continuing after his death.