Photograph - gelatin silver photograph, Councillor John Burder Backhouse, Mayor of Brighton 1898, c. 1898

Historical information

John Burder Backhouse (1855-1935) was elected as a representative of the North Ward for the Town of Brighton in 1893, becoming Mayor in 1898. After an appointment as the sole resident medical officer at the Alfred Hospital, he set up a private medical practice in Brighton in 1887.

Physical description

gelatin silver photograph

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