Sir David Charles Mauger is a New Zealand paediatric oncologist. He was the first paediatric oncologist in New Zealand, and performed New Zealand's first paediatric

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Early life and family

Mauger's parents were Clarence Charles Mauger and Jessie Bannerman Mauger (née Mackenzie). His father was a member of the 1914–1917

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, serving as shipwright on the ''Aurora'', and later had a peak,

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, in the

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named in his honour. Mauger was educated at Arthur Street School in

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, and

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, where he played in the school's 1st XV

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team. He later played for the Otago University rugby team while a student at the

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. As a youth, Mauger was a promising swimmer as a member of the Dunedin Amateur Swimming Club, where he was coached by Bernard "Punch" Tremaine. In 1949, he won the De Crewe Challenge Cup as the club's under-12 25-yards breaststroke champion. In June 1951, he set a New Zealand under-14 boys' record for the 100-yards breastroke, with a time of 1:21.8, breaking the previous record by 0.6 seconds.

Medical career

Mauger studied medicine at the University of Otago, graduating

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, in 1963. He later worked at Princess Mary Children's Hospital and Starship Hospital in

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. He became the first paediatric oncologist in New Zealand, and performed New Zealand's first paediatric

. Mauger was a founding member of the Child Cancer Foundation in 1978, and in 1999 he was made a life member. In the 2002 Queen's Brithday and Golden Jubilee Honours, he was appointed a

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, for services to paediatrics. Following the reintroduction of titular honours by the New Zealand government in

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, he accepted redesignation as a

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mauger, David Year of birth missing (living people) Living people New Zealand paediatricians New Zealand oncologists 20th-century New Zealand medical doctors 21st-century New Zealand medical doctors Knights Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit Health professionals from Dunedin People educated at Otago Boys' High School New Zealand male swimmers New Zealand rugby union players