Late Life
Bland continued in active medical practice until 1868.
He was the subject of the first surviving photograph taken in the Australian colonies and was the founder and first president of the Australian Medical Association.
He died intestate in Sydney on 21 July 1868 of pneumonia, and was accorded a State Funeral.
Bland County, New South Wales was named in his honour.
An electoral division in the first federal parliament, the Division of Bland, was named after him. This division was abolished in 1906.
Bland is also commemorated in the name of Bland Shire Council and Bland Street in suburban Ashfield and Haberfield where he purchased land in 1839. The Bland Oak in Oakdene Park, Carramar, New South Wales and Bland Street in Carramar, New South Wales, are located what was known as the Mark Lodge estate, acquired by Bland in 1840.
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