Death of the Rev, D. D. Rut.ledge.
The death took place on Tuesday at Sutton Forrest of the Rev. David D. Rutledge, M.B., Ch.M., third son of the late Mr. James Rutledge, of Sydney, and brother of Sir Arthur Rutledge, of Queensland, and of the Rev. W. Woolls Rutledge. The Rev. David Rutledge was educated at Sydney Grammar School and Sydney University, crowning a successful scholastic career with the degree of M. A. He was ordained for the Church of England ministry by the Bishop of Newcastle. He served as a curate at Scone, and subsequently in various incumbencies in the Bathurst diocese. When the medical school was opened at Sydney University he resigned from his parish in the west to accept the position of assistant minister at St. Stephen's Newtown, under the Rev. Canon Taylor, and he also entered as one of the first students in the medical school. He was the first doctor trained at the Sydney University. The deceased gentleman was 53 years of age. His wife, who was the eldest daughter of Mr. N. F, Asser, of Scone, survives him with 11 children.
Source: The Muswellbrook Chronicle 23 Sep 1905
905. Sydney John Field
(Before the Judge in Divorce,
Mr. Justice Owen.) FIELD V FIELD.
A number of Incidents in the private life of Mrs. Field were related by Maggie Jean Matthewson yesterday, when the hearing was resumed of the consolidated suits in which Ivy Gladys Field (formerly Ongley) Is petitioning for a divorce from Sydney John Field, on the ground of adultery and cruelty, and Field, is asking for a divorce on the ground of his wife's adultery with Victor Bray, Hollis Bush, and Ronald Nott.
Source: The SMH 4 Nov 1931
Migrated from England (aged 16)