Thomas Valintine

Valintine was born in Westhampnett, Sussex, England, in 1865, and was educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire. He graduated with medical and surgical qualifications and a Royal College of Physicians Diploma in Public Health at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He later qualified as a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecarie (LSA). ==Career==

Valintine commenced his career working in the West Sussex Hospital and a Portsmouth asylum before emigrating to New Zealand in 1891. Valintine took an interest in the treatment of tuberculosis (TB), campaigning for a sanatorium in Ōtaki in 1904 and for hospital TB annexes in other towns and districts. After the war he remained with the Defence Department, conducting an inquiry into a 1916 outbreak of respiratory diseases at the Trentham Military Camp. Valentine retired in 1930. He died in Wanganui on 30 August 1945. == Honours and awards ==

Valintine was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1919 King's Birthday Honours for his services during the First World War. == Personal life ==

Valentine married Margaret Ellis McTaggart in New Plymouth in 1891. They had two daughters and a son but Margaret died from a complication of pregnancy in 1910. In 1911 Valentine married his second wife Barbara Vickers in Christchurch. He had seven children in all. ==References==