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Laurie Mashford Obituary
MASHFORD
Dr Laurie
(Maurice Laurence)
20.08.1930 - 16.12.2013
Beloved partner and best friend of Enid
Meldrum. Loving father
of John, Andrew, Virginia, and Juliet (and partner Peter).
Grandfather of Emrhys,
Hannah, Laurence, Clarissa and Melia. Great-grandfather of Eva and Ruby. Loved and respected by David Meldrum, Kim Goodrick, Connor and Ross Meldrum.
A wise physician and a true gentleman. He will be remembered for his compassion and wry wit.
At Laurie's request, there will be no funeral service. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date.
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A Anon
March 4, 2021
Dr. Mashford (at the time) was my honours supervisor at St. Vincents, leading a project into the use of activated charcoal in opioid overdoses using radiolabelled morphine as a proximate. He was also a lecturer in toxicology in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne, which is where I first met him as a student. He was a somewhat distant supervisor to a mere honous student given his other responsibilities, but was always approachable and made himself available with kind words of advice or direction in research - a fatherly figure for all those working under his direction. His clinical expertise was spot-on, and he was the go-to person for complicated envenomation cases where he would liaise with treating physicians all over Australia, and I'm sure he saved many lives. He, and the other MBBS people in the Department of Pharmacology inspired me to put myself through medicine later on, and subsequently qualify as an FRACP clinical pharmacologist. To me, he took on the mantle of the great Dr. Struan Sutherland, a giant in the world of envenomation and the developer of so many antivenes we rely on in Australia given our outsized number of creatures that can kill you in this country (including the funnel web and redback spiders!) RIP Laurie.
Kenn Raymond
December 24, 2013
A gentleman, a most caring physician, a super guy;sadly departed this life far too early
Christine Wagner
December 23, 2013
A wonderful friend to my father. A true gentleman all round. He will be missed.
Fr Daniel Ghabrial
December 21, 2013
Laurie was my teacher and mentor I'm indebted to him for much of my academic and personal development. A generous man with high personal integrity. A blessed memory always
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December 19, 2013
A true gentleman with much wisdom.A valued colleague on the AUS.DI Editorial Board since 1990.Sincere sympathy to Enid and his family. Jenny Gowan
Yan Guan
December 19, 2013
Laurie, you not only guided me in my study, also you took care of me as if I was your own son. You will be always missed. Yan Guan
Rosemary Baptist
December 19, 2013
A true gentleman who will be sadly missed. Having worked with him for almost 15 years I got to know Laurie quite closely and he indeed was a learned physician.
Jo-Anne Weiss
December 18, 2013
Good-bye Laurie, a kind, good humoured and really gentle man.
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