Surgn Lt. Col Richard Nugent Stoker, I. M. S.
b. 31 October 1851 at Artane Lodge, Fairview, Dublin, Ireland
d. 14 June 1931 at Duncan, British Columbia, Canada.
Educated at Rathmines School, Dublin,
licensed by Kings and Queens College of Physicians, Dublin, Ireland.
In July 1873, was licensed to practice surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.
Married Susan Harden of Raheny, Dublin 1875
Son of Abraham Coates Stoker and Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley
m. Susan Harden
It was Dick and Susan's plan to relocate to Tasmania after his retirement, but while traveling, they fell in love with the wilderness of British Columbia, Canada, and bought acreage on Vancouver Island. The area had become popular with the Anglo-Indian military officers and civil servants, travel writers and word of mouth between friends extolled the area's climate, scenery, and relaxed yet polite way of life. The Stokers returned to stay in 1900, spending the long Canadian winters in a comfortable, two-story, white clapboard house they built in Maple Bay, and the summers in a log cabin on Lake Cowichan, where Dick continued to hunt and fish, and where they both worked to establish a vast, naturally landscaped rhododendron garden, the genesis for Finnerty Gardens, a part of the University of Victoria.
An interesting fact about Richard Stoker, a doctor and a colonel in the India Army, is that he was the brother of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.
b. 31 October 1851 at Artane Lodge, Fairview, Dublin, Ireland
d. 14 June 1931 at Duncan, British Columbia, Canada.
Educated at Rathmines School, Dublin,
licensed by Kings and Queens College of Physicians, Dublin, Ireland.
In July 1873, was licensed to practice surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.
Married Susan Harden of Raheny, Dublin 1875
Son of Abraham Coates Stoker and Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley
m. Susan Harden
It was Dick and Susan's plan to relocate to Tasmania after his retirement, but while traveling, they fell in love with the wilderness of British Columbia, Canada, and bought acreage on Vancouver Island. The area had become popular with the Anglo-Indian military officers and civil servants, travel writers and word of mouth between friends extolled the area's climate, scenery, and relaxed yet polite way of life. The Stokers returned to stay in 1900, spending the long Canadian winters in a comfortable, two-story, white clapboard house they built in Maple Bay, and the summers in a log cabin on Lake Cowichan, where Dick continued to hunt and fish, and where they both worked to establish a vast, naturally landscaped rhododendron garden, the genesis for Finnerty Gardens, a part of the University of Victoria.
An interesting fact about Richard Stoker, a doctor and a colonel in the India Army, is that he was the brother of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.
Surgn Lt. Col Richard Nugent Stoker, I. M. S.
b. 31 October 1851 at Artane Lodge, Fairview, Dublin, Ireland
d. 14 June 1931 at Duncan, British Columbia, Canada.
Educated at Rathmines School, Dublin,
licensed by Kings and Queens College of Physicians, Dublin, Ireland.
In July 1873, was licensed to practice surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.
Married Susan Harden of Raheny, Dublin 1875
Son of Abraham Coates Stoker and Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley
m. Susan Harden
It was Dick and Susan's plan to relocate to Tasmania after his retirement, but while traveling, they fell in love with the wilderness of British Columbia, Canada, and bought acreage on Vancouver Island. The area had become popular with the Anglo-Indian military officers and civil servants, travel writers and word of mouth between friends extolled the area's climate, scenery, and relaxed yet polite way of life. The Stokers returned to stay in 1900, spending the long Canadian winters in a comfortable, two-story, white clapboard house they built in Maple Bay, and the summers in a log cabin on Lake Cowichan, where Dick continued to hunt and fish, and where they both worked to establish a vast, naturally landscaped rhododendron garden, the genesis for Finnerty Gardens, a part of the University of Victoria.
An interesting fact about Richard Stoker, a doctor and a colonel in the India Army, is that he was the brother of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.
b. 31 October 1851 at Artane Lodge, Fairview, Dublin, Ireland
d. 14 June 1931 at Duncan, British Columbia, Canada.
Educated at Rathmines School, Dublin,
licensed by Kings and Queens College of Physicians, Dublin, Ireland.
In July 1873, was licensed to practice surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.
Married Susan Harden of Raheny, Dublin 1875
Son of Abraham Coates Stoker and Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley
m. Susan Harden
It was Dick and Susan's plan to relocate to Tasmania after his retirement, but while traveling, they fell in love with the wilderness of British Columbia, Canada, and bought acreage on Vancouver Island. The area had become popular with the Anglo-Indian military officers and civil servants, travel writers and word of mouth between friends extolled the area's climate, scenery, and relaxed yet polite way of life. The Stokers returned to stay in 1900, spending the long Canadian winters in a comfortable, two-story, white clapboard house they built in Maple Bay, and the summers in a log cabin on Lake Cowichan, where Dick continued to hunt and fish, and where they both worked to establish a vast, naturally landscaped rhododendron garden, the genesis for Finnerty Gardens, a part of the University of Victoria.
An interesting fact about Richard Stoker, a doctor and a colonel in the India Army, is that he was the brother of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.
Inscription
In
Loving Memory of
Lt. Col. RICHARD NUGENT
STOKER I. M. S.
son of
ABRAHAM STOKER
of Dublin
Born Oct. 31 1854
Died June 14 1931
Also SUSAN
widow of the above
BORN July 27 1852
DIED June 13 1936
I will lift up mine eyes
unto the hills
And her sister
LUCY HARDEN
Died Aug. 10 1949
Aged 81 years
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