Herbert Macandrew

Herbert Macandrew (c. 1858 – 15 January 1917) was a New Zealand medical doctor and medical superintendent of the Seaview Asylum in Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island.

[1] He was born in Dunedin and attended Otago Boys High School.

[2] He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh; after graduating in 1883 he worked at an asylum in Shrewsbury.

[2] He was assistant medical officer at Seacliff Asylum and from 1887 was medical superintendent at Seaview Asylum in Hokitika for 28 years.

[1] Macandrew died of cancer on 15 January 1917 aged 57 in Hokitika.

Grave of Herbert Macandrew, his wife Lissie Ethel ( d. 1945 ) and their daughter Marion Gordon (1897–1984), Hokitika Cemetery