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About George Herod
- Doctor George Samuel Herod (May 26, 1827 – January 25, 1899) was an English-born physician and politician.
- He served as mayor of Guelph from 1869 to 1870.He was born in Lancashire and was educated in Mansfield and Birmingham.
- Herod came to Guelph in 1840.
- He studied medicine with two physicians there and then continued his studies at King's College, Toronto and was admitted to practice in 1847.
- He became a physician at the Emigrant Hospital in Hamilton and set up practice in Georgetown a year later.
- In 1854, Herod returned to Guelph and entered practice with Dr.
- William Clarke.
- Herod served as county coroner, as surgeon for the jail and as surgeon for the county militia.
- He was also a member of the town council and of the local school board.Herod married Margaret Sandiland.He died in Guelph.
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