This page lists some pharmacists/chemists/druggists who have pages on this site.
Richard Birch had a pharmacy in the west end of High Street which in 1882 he expanded to become a casualty ward, before there was a hospital in Fremantle.
Frank Gibson (later Sir Frank, 1948), was Mayor of Fremantle 1919-1923, 1926-1951. His shop was in High Street, next to Atwell Arcade.
John Cattalini was the second pharmacist to become mayor of Fremantle, 1984-1994.
Edward Mayhew was a founding member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Western Australia, as well as its first president, and was also the first pharmacist to be registered in this state under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act of 1894.
Tom Owen's shop was on the corner of Hubble Street with Canning Road.
Alfred Edwin Webster. In 1898, Alfred Webster, an English-trained chemist, joined in a business partnership with Richard Birch. Both were foundation members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Western Australia. See references in Dictionary of Western Australians, Vol. 4, Parts 1 and 2, for Birch and Webster; Western Mail, 2 July 1910.
References and Links
- McWhinney, Alan 1975, A History of Pharmacy in Western Australia, Pharmaceutical Council of Western Australia.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 30 October, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/pharmacists.html (it was last updated on 7 April, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.