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Name: O'SULLIVAN-BEARE, Daniel Robert (Dr.)
Birth Date: 17 May 1862 Dublin
Death Date: 13 June 1921 London
Nationality: British
First Date: 1893
Profession: Acting Consular Surgeon at Zanzibar 1893, HM Vice-Consul at Pemba 1894
Area: Zanzibar, Pemba
Married: In London 1893 Juanita 'Nita' Franziska von Praeger b. 1856 Vienna, d. 1927 Uxbridge (prev. m. Frederick Augustus Simes 1851-1907 and Warren Hastings Sands 1853-1909)
Children: Yvonne M. J. (bapt. Zanz Oct 1897); Barry Donal (bapt. Pemba Oct 1899)
Book Reference: Gillett, North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1904
School: Grad. Arts & Medicine & Gold Medallist in Natural Science, (Dublin University)
General Information:
North - arr. Zanzibar with wife from Marseilles 31/8/1893; Appt. Acting Consular Surgeon, Zanzibar Oct 1893; Appt. HM Vice Consul Pemba Oct 1894; leave 1895, 1898; changed name from O'Sullivan to O'Sullivan-Beare April 1899; dep. Zanzibar for Europe, to take up appt. in South America 27/6/1905
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thom%27s_Irish_Who%27s_Who/O%27Sullivan-Beare,_Daniel_Robert O'SULLIVAN-BEARE, Daniel Robert (The O'Sullivan-Beare), B.A., M.B. (T.C.D.) Educ.: French schools; Dublin University (T.C.D.): First Senior Moderator and Gold Medallist in Natural Science; attached to Army Medical Department during Egyptian Campaign, 1885; Medical Officer in the Gold Coast Colony 1893; acting Medical Officer to Agency at Zanzibar, 1893-94; Vice-Consul for the Island of Pemba, East Africa, 1894; was engaged during several years in suppressing the slave trade; received personal rank of Consul, as reward for services in that connection, 1906; while in Africa brought to the notice of the medical profession a native remedy for cure of Blackwater Fever, which has since proved to be a specific for the disease; Consul at Bahia, Brazil, 1907; acting Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro, 1907-8; transferred, as Consul, to San Paulo, Brazil, 1907; Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro, 1913-15, and again from 1919; seconded by Foreign Office for military service and gazetted Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C, Nov., 1915; served throughout the European War, 1914-19; has received the Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar. Recns.: riding, tennis; only son of the late The O'Sullivan-Beare; b. 1865. Res.: Rio de Janeiro. Club: Royal Thames Yacht.