Lindsay Winterbotham
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Lindsey Page Winterbotham (1887–1960) was an Australian doctor and anthropologist, who helped to establish the Anthropology Museum at the University of Queensland.
Lindsey Page Winterbotham was born on 14 April 1887 in North Adelaide, South Australia. He attended the Collegiate School of St Peter. He enrolled in medicine at the University of Adelaide[1] but transferred to the University of Melbourne in his third year where he graduated with an MB BS in 1908.[2] He moved to Queensland where he undertook his medical residency at the Brisbane General Hospital. After working as locum in several country towns Winterbotham established his own practice in Lowood in 1909. In 1912 he married nurse Constance Mary Moore.[3] They moved to Annerley in Brisbane where Winterbotham established his practice and remained there until his death.[2]
Military service and membership of charitable organisations
In early 1914, Winterbotham was appointed a captain in the militia of the Australian (Army) Medical Corps. During World War I, he provided services to training sites around Brisbane. Following the war he was honorary surgeon at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, South Brisbane, between 1920 and 1925. He was a visiting medical officer to the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution of Queensland. Winterbotham was a member of the Queensland branch of the British Medical Association and helped to organise the general practitioners' group of the association in 1939. He served as chairman until 1949 and was president in 1944. He lobbied for pay rises for R.M.O.s. During World War II, he participated in the committee which monitored wartime petrol rationing and he lectured in medical ethics at the University of Queensland. Winterbotham was patron of the university's medical society between 1943 and 1944.[2]