# Harvard Dental School ## expand\_more ![shield_dental-091412-2](/sites/g/files/omnuum10876/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/harvaus/files/shield_dental-091412-2.png?itok=nw9qNelT) The Harvard Dental School was founded in 1867. The Harvard Directory of 1910 records 19 alumni with Australian addresses of whom 10 had dental degrees. The dominance of dentists is even more pronounced if only those graduates who lived in Australia before going to Harvard are considered. By this criterion, there were 12 Australian graduates of Harvard of whom 10 had dental degrees. The reasons why so many young dentists went to study at the Harvard Dental School are bound up with the accreditation of dentists in Australia and the naming of degrees. Dentistry in the Australian colonies was initially unregulated. The Dentists’ Act of 1878 required registration of dentists in the United Kingdom. British dentists held Licentiates in Dental Surgery but could not obtain doctoral degrees until the turn of the century. Dental degrees from Harvard and Michigan were initially accepted as qualifying a dentist for British registration, but were subsequently deemed insufficient qualification in 1893. Some thought that the British Dentists’ Act also applied to the colonies but, in practice, the Australian dental profession continued to be unregulated. The first colony to pass its own Dental Act was Tasmania (1884), followed by Victoria (1887), Western Australia (1894), New South Wales (1900), Queensland (1902), and South Australia (1902). The Acts were not fully compatible, and a dentist who was duly registered in one state might not qualify for registration if he moved to another state. The colonial Dental Acts allowed registration of persons who were registered, or entitled to be registered, in the United Kingdom, as well as persons who satisfied local requirements. Disputes about who could be registered, especially among those who had practised prior to the Acts, were often acrimonious. Before the establishment of dental colleges, the standard way to obtain dental training in the colonies was by fee-paying apprenticeship (or to be trained by a dentist relative). The first colony to establish a dental school was Victoria, followed by New South Wales and South Australia (after Federation). An Odontological Society of Victoria was founded in 1884 with an exclusive, self-elected membership. The Society lobbied for dental reform and the raising of the professional status of dentists. The Dental Board of Victoria, with powers to register dentists, was established in 1888 under the terms of the Dentists’ Act of 1887 and began to examine candidates for registration. A Dental Association was founded in 1890 with the purpose of founding a dental hospital and college in Melbourne. The membership of the Dental Association overlapped with, but was more inclusive, than the Odontological Society. A Melbourne Dental Hospital was opened in 1890 under the governance of a committee appointed by the subscribers. The Hospital appears to have struggled and in 1895 its governance was transferred from the committee to the Dental Association. By this time, the Melbourne Dental Hospital had a rival in the form of the Oral Hospital of Victoria (see below). In March 1894, John Iliffe and Edwin Lenthall Oldfield were elected to the Dental Board of Victoria. Iliffe was English-born, English-trained and one of the founders of the Odontological Society of Victoria. Oldfield was native-born. In January 1895, Oldfield opened a private Dental College and Oral Hospital in Fitzroy with the purpose of training students to pass the examinations of the Dental Board. The college was open to women and among its early students was Alys Berry the daughter of Sir Graham Berry, then speaker of the Victorian parliament. The Dental Board however, over Oldfield’s objections, recognized the Melbourne Dental Hospital as the educational institution within the meaning of its regulations. Newspaper references can be found at this time to the Melbourne Dental Hospital and College. Oldfield was voted off the Dental Board in March 1897 (John Iliffe and Arthur R. Clarke were the successful candidates). In May, Oldfield registered the Odontological Society of Victoria Limited as a company. This was probably a ploy to seize control of the name from Iliffe and his supporters. In July, the Australian College of Dentistry was opened in affiliation with the Melbourne Dental Hospital (John Iliffe as vice-president) and Oldfield gazetted the Dental College and Oral Hospital as a public hospital under a committee of subscribers. Oldfield’s College continued under his private management. Oldfield is reported to have asked the Australian College to take on his students but the request was declined. In February 1899, Alys Berry, Ethel Godfrey, and Mrs Balderson were the first women to be registered as dentists in Victoria after four years’ practise at Oldfield’s Dental College and Oral Hospital. I have found no evidence of the Dental College taking on new students after the establishment of the Australian College of Dentistry. Ernest Harold Christopher Bailey and Francis William Bailey entered Harvard Dental School with training from the Dental College and Oral Hospital whereas Thomas William Lee Wilson and Christopher William Hurworth entered with training from the Melbourne Dental College. Lenthall Oldfield was absent from Australia 1900–1904. During this time, he was registered as a colonial dentist in Great Britain, as a dentist in Illinois, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Toronto, and graduated M.D. from Jenner Medical College, Chicago. He returned to Australia in November 1904 with a new wife and daughter (Minnie Oldfield who had remained in Australia considered they were still married). Oldfield died, insolvent, on January 27, 1906 and the Dental College and Oral Hospital died with him. The Australian College of Dentistry could not grant degrees and offered a Licentiate of Dental Surgery of Victoria. The College affiliated with the University of Melbourne in 1904, after which the University offered a four-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery from 1905. A campaign by the Odontological Society of Victoria (the Society reappears after Oldfield's death) resulted in the University offering a Doctor of Dental Science from 1911. The Dental Act of New South Wales became operative on January 1, 1901 and a Dental School associated with the University of Sydney opened later that year. Of the six lecturers in practical dentistry appointed in 1901, one possessed the English Licentiate of Dental Science but the other five were Doctors of Dental Science from the University of Philadelphia. One of the latter (Alfred Cooper Nathan) also possessed the degree Doctor of Dental Medicine from Harvard University. The first students for the degree Bachelor of Dental Surgery were admitted to the University of Sydney in 1906. The degree Doctor of Dental Science was approved in 1926 and first awarded the following year. Dental apprenticeships were abolished by an amendment of the Act in 1934. A dental school was not established at the University of Adelaide until 1919. This school initially offered a Bachelor of Dental Surgery with a Doctor of Dental Science added in 1923. During the late colonial period and the early years of Federation, many Australian dentists went to study in America. Charles Newling, an Adelaide dentist who had trained as a fee-paying apprentice to dentists in Sydney and Melbourne, identified an important reason why aspiring young dentists sought American degrees. “With a colonial degree you are Mr., but with the American you are Dr. This is the undoubted attraction to our students. I notice there are no less than 17 students from Australia in one American college, and there are dozens of colleges there. … A Dental College established in Adelaide giving a three-years’ course and the D.D.S. degree would attract students from all over the Commonwealth and relieve ‘Brother Johnathan’ of looking after our boys” (*Register (Adelaide)* 21 July 1910). One of his sons, Percival Ray Newling, subsequently obtained a dental doctorate from Northwestern University (Chicago) in 1914, and another, Russell Lee Newling, obtained a dental doctorate from Harvard in 1917. The importance of the doctoral title was also noted in an editorial in the *Horsham Times* (24 October 1911) after the establishment of a Doctor of Dental Science at the University of Melbourne: “Victorian students in dentistry will consequently not require to go abroad in future to obtain the much-coveted distinction.” At least 36 former residents of Australia received the Harvard degree of Doctoral of Dental Medicine up until the Commencement of 1941. Some of these students came to Harvard Dental School for a full multi-year course of instruction, but the majority came for a single year to obtain their doctorate after receiving training in Australia. During the 1920s, 11 out of 14 D.M.D.s were granted to individuals with a B.D.S. from the University of Sydney who came to Harvard to obtain their doctorate. Victorian students are absent during this period, presumably because the D.D.S. degree was available at the University of Melbourne. The stream of Sydney-trained dentists coming to Harvard dries to a trickle after 1927, once dentists could obtain a doctoral degree from the University of Sydney. Most of the individuals who undertook the full Harvard dental course (not just the final year) came from Western Australia where there was no dental school during this period. ### Class of 1887 expand\_more #### Peter Crank Peter Crank (1860–1931) was born at Norwood, South Australia and received his early education in the colony. He accompanied his parents to England where he obtained a Licentiate of Dental Surgery (L.D.S) in 1884. He then spent a year at Harvard Dental School from which he obtained a Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D) in 1887. He returned to South Australia in 1889 and was a member of the first South Australian Dental Board in 1902. He practiced at Harvard Chambers, North Terrace, and was one of the state’s first owners of an automobile. ### Class of 1893 expand\_more #### Frank Merrett Wilkinson Frank Merrett Wilkinson (1869–1962) was born at Kadina, South Australia and attended the University of Adelaide before obtaining an apprenticeship in dentistry. He attended Harvard Dental School 1890–1893 from where he obtained a D.M.D. On his return, he practised in Adelaide before moving to Perth in 1896 (initially in partnership with [Alexander James Wright](/icb/icb.do?keyword=k61661&pageid=icb.page506398)). He was elected to the Western Australian Dental Board in 1897 and later became its President. A son, Harvard Wendell Wilkinson, was born in 1898. ### Class of 1898 expand\_more #### Ernest Harold Christopher Bailey Ernest Harold Christopher Bailey (1874–1952) and [Francis William Bailey](/icb/icb.do?keyword=k61661&pageid=icb.page583041)(1877–1949) were brothers born at Ballarat, Victoria. They attended Harvard Dental School for the year 1897–98, both graduating D.M.D. The Harvard Catalogue for 1898–1899 lists their prior qualifications as R.D.S. Melbourne Dental College Oral Hospital 1897. The Bailey brothers applied to the General Medical Council of Great Britain in December 1898 to be registered as colonial dentists on the basis of their Victorian registration and their applications were accepted (Harvard dental degrees were no longer recognized in Great Britain). The brothers were the first dentists with colonial qualifications to be entered on the British register. Their registration was promptly challenged by the Dental Board of Victoria on the grounds that the Baileys had been registered in Victoria on the basis of an apprenticeship without completing an approved curriculum. Despite this challenge, both Baileys remained on the British Dental Register and the General Medical Council registered their mentor Edwin Lenthall Oldfield as the third colonial dentist in 1900. Harold Bailey was reported in the Victorian press to have practised in America, England, France and Switzerland. By 1903 he was practising at Harvard House, Collins-street in Melbourne with regular visits to Bacchus Marsh. He was elected honorary dentist to the Alfred Hospital in 1907 but was reprimanded in 1909 for collecting fees that were not contributed to the general fund. In 1928, he was convicted of knowingly receiving stolen dental instruments and struck from the Victorian and British dental registers. #### Francis William Bailey Francis William Bailey (1877–1949) and Ernest Harold Christopher Bailey (1874–1952) were brothers born at Ballarat, Victoria. They were registered as dentists in Victoria in 1896 and attended Harvard for the year 1897–98, both graduating D.M.D. In the Harvard Catalogue for the year 1898–1899, their prior qualification is given as R.D.S. from the Melbourne Dental College Oral Hospital 1897. Francis Bailey enlisted in the U.S. Army as a dentist in the Hospital Corps on June 15, 1898. He served in Porto Rico and was discharged at Fort Monroe, Virginia, October 18, 1898. Francis Bailey applied with his brother to the General Medical Council of Great Britain in December 1898 to be registered as a colonial dentist on the basis of his Victorian registration. The brothers were the first dentists with colonial qualifications to be entered on the British register. Their registration was promptly challenged by the Dental Board of Victoria. The Victorian Attorney General had ruled that the setting of a curriculum and examinations was beyond the statutory powers of the Dental Board of Victoria. Therefore, the Baileys had been registered in Victoria on the basis of an apprenticeship without completing an approved curriculum and should not have been registered in the United Kingdom. Despite this challenge, both Baileys remained on the British Dental Register. F. W. Bailey settled in Ireland where he practised at Harvard House, Waterford, Ireland. He died at Dublin in 1949. ### Class of 1899 expand\_more #### Alfred Cooper Nathan Alfred Cooper Nathan (1875–1938) was born at Glebe, New South Wales. He was the son of Alfred Nathan, a wine and spirits merchant, a grandson of the composer Isaac Nathan, and a student at Sydney Grammar School. At the age of 13 he ran away from home and made his way to Newcastle where he shipped, under an assumed name, as a cabin boy on the *Tanjore* bound for Manila. He was taken from the ship before sailing and returned to his family. Nathan was a student at the Dental School of the University of California (1895–1897), obtained the degree D.D.S. from the Philadelphia Dental College in 1898, and then spent the 1898–1899 year at Harvard from where he graduated D.M.D. He was appointed a lecturer in mechanical dentistry at the new Dental School of the University of Sydney (1901-1904). After resigning his position at the Dental School, he was a grazier near Inverell until 1909. In 1910, he registered as a dentist in Western Australia where he practised for four years before returning to Sydney. For 20 years (1916–1936) he was a dentist at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, before moving to Yass. ### Class of 1903 expand\_more #### Thomas William Lee Wilson Thomas William Lee Wilson (1881–1969) was born at Carlton, Victoria. He obtained the Licentiate of the Australian College of Dentistry (1901), then spent the 1902–1903 year at Harvard. After Harvard he spent time at Guy’s Hospital, London before returning to Melbourne in 1904. His home address in 1905 is listed as Harvard House, Ballarat. He was registered by the Dental Board of Western Australia in 1906 and was elected to the Board in 1908 in a special election. A. J. Watts had been forced to resign from the Board because his son had been extracting teeth without registration. Members of the press and dental profession had called on the whole Board to resign but the president of the Board, [Frank Merrett Wilkinson](/icb/icb.do?keyword=k61661&pageid=icb.page506371), called the special election for which he acted as returning officer. On the initial count, Wilson and his opponent Tuckfield were tied with 52 votes. Wilkinson disqualified one of Wilson's votes but four of his opponents, declaring Wilson elected. “Jaw-jagger Wilson beats tooth-tugger Tuckfield by three votes” declared the Perth *Sunday Times*. Wilson moved from Bunbury to Kalgoorlie in 1909 but his practice in Kalgoorlie did not flourish. Later that year he resigned from the Dental Board, after being accused of burning down his Kalgoorlie residence to collect insurance. The juries were unable to reach a verdict after two trials for arson. He failed in an attempt to be re-elected to the Dental Board in 1915. Wilson practised for many years in Perth for the Metropolitan Dental Company (1910–1948), described as “The Most Colossal and Progressive Dental Enterprise South of the Equator.” He died in Victoria. ### Class of 1904 expand\_more #### Christopher William Hurworth Christopher William Hurworth obtained the Licentiate of the Australian College of Dentistry in 1900. He was the first registrar of the Dental Board of Queensland in 1903 but resigned the position to attend Harvard in 1903–1904. He practised in Brisbane and Toowoomba. ### Class of 1905 expand\_more #### George Steven Smith Greenwell George Steven Smith Greenwell (1876–1938) and Howard Robinson Greenwell (1880–1950) were brothers, born at Windsor, New South Wales, who attended Harvard together (1902–1905). George studied at Hawkesbury Agricultural College before attending Harvard. After obtaining the Harvard D.M.D, the Greenwell brothers practiced together on Macquarie Street, Sydney and established separate households in Killara. #### [Donald Campbell McCallum](/icb/icb.do?keyword=k61661&pageid=icb.page506665) Donald Campbell McCallum travelled in steerage to attend the College of the Bible, Kentucky, on the same boat which brought the Greenwells to San Francisco, in the saloon, to attend Harvard Dental School. #### Walter Oscar Paul Walter Oscar Paul (1880–1970) was a native of Sydney. He obtained a degree from Philadelphia Dental College in 1904, then the Harvard D.M.D. in 1905. He practised in Sydney with a specialization in orthodontics. He was a major collector of Australian painting. The Oscar Paul collection, containing paintings by Hans Heysen, Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts (among others), was donated to the National Gallery of Australia in the 1960s ### Class of 1906 expand\_more #### Percie Chater Charlton Percie Chater Charlton (1867–1954) was born at Surry Hills, Sydney. After high school, he worked as a draftsman in the New South Wales public service and played intercolonial cricket. He was chosen for the Australian Eleven that toured England in 1890 and played in two tests. He attended Harvard Dental School 1904–1906, from where he obtained the D.M.D., followed by the English L.D.S. in 1909 and a similar qualification from Glasgow. He was the superintendent of the Sydney Dental Hospital from 1910 until 1923. ### Class of 1908 expand\_more #### Alexander James Wright Alexander James Wright was born at Bendigo (his father was wounded at the Eureka Stockade). He practised as a dentist in Tasmania and then in Western Australia where he was, at different times, a partner of Frank Merrett Wilkinson and Samuel Vaughan Selby. He obtained the English L.D.S. in 1906 and then a D.M.D. from Harvard in 1908 before returning to practice in Perth. He was president of the Dental Board of West Australia for three years. After retiring from dentistry he became a major financier and investor in Perth real estate. ### Class of 1914 expand\_more #### Thomas Alexander Moffat Wilson Thomas Alexander Moffat Wilson (1890–1978) was born in Melbourne. His family moved to Perth where he attended Perth Boy’s High before attending the University of Adelaide. He spent 1911–14 at the Harvard Dental School from where he graduated D.M.D. After Harvard he continued his studies at Guy’s Hospital, London. He married an American woman in London in 1915 before returning to Western Australia. In October 1916, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force. His war duty was served in England (1918–1919). He emigrated to the United States from England in 1924, lived in New Jersey, and practised in New York City. ### Class of 1915 expand\_more #### Samuel Vaughan Selby Samuel Vaughan Selby (1887–1916) was born at Newtown, Sydney before the family moved to Western Australia. In 1904, he was apprenticed as an articled pupil in dentistry to Alexander James Wright. Selby was registered by the Dental Board of Western Australia in 1908 at a meeting chaired by Frank Merrett Wilkinson and attended by Thomas William Lee Wilson. At the same meeting, A. J. Wright’s D.M.D. from Harvard was added to his qualifications in the register. Selby established a practice in Geraldton. In 1910, Selby obtained the degree L.D.S. from Edinburgh Dental School where he was awarded the MacGregor Gold Medal. He returned to Perth to practice with A. J. Wright. In 1914, he travelled to Boston with William Eyres Bennett and Leonard Daniel Nathan to enroll at Harvard Dental School. Selby obtained the D.M.D. in 1915. In January 1916, he entered a partnership with A. J. Wright. He was appointed an honorary lieutenant in the Australian Army Medical Corps but resigned his commission to enlist as a private. He was killed in action on 12 October 1916 at Passchendaele. Selby has no known grave but is memorialized in the Harvard Memorial Church and at the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. ### Class of 1916 expand\_more #### Russell Lee Newling Russell Lee Newling (1891–1984) was born at Mount Gambier, South Australia. He attended Harvard Dental School 1915–1916. He returned to Adelaide after the end of World War I before moving to California in 1919 where he was a dentist in Beverly Hills. ### Class of 1917 expand\_more #### William Eyres Bennett William Eyres Bennett (1889–1964) was born at Mount Egerton Victoria and educated Scotch College Perth and the University of Adelaide. He was registered as a dentist’s apprentice in Western Australia (1909). In 1914, Samuel Vaughan Selby, Leonard Daniel Nathan, and William Eyres Bennett travelled together to study at Harvard Dental School. He obtained his DMD in 1917 and married Helen Curtis, a science graduate and Massachusetts native. After active duty in Labrador he returned to Western Australia in 1919 where Helen Curtis Bennett died in 1932. Later that year, her husband returned to Harvard, with their two young daughters, for a year of postgraduate study, before returning to practice in Western Australia. #### Arthur William Elworthy Arthur William Elworthy (1876–1948) was the son of a Queensland grazier. He appears to have worked as an engineer before trying his hand at dentistry. He obtained the Doctor of Dental Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1915) and Doctor of Medical Dentistry from Harvard (1917). He lived for many years in Philadelphia but retired to Queensland. #### Leonard Daniel Nathan Leonard Daniel Nathan (1883–1978) was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. By 1904, the family had moved to Perth, Western Australia, where his father, Saltiel David Nathan, practised as a medical electrician and masseur. Leonard worked as a watchmaker before being registered as a dental apprentice in 1911. In 1914, Leonard Daniel Nathan, William Eyres Bennett, and Samuel Vaughan Selby travelled together to the United States to study at Harvard Dental School. Nathan received the D.M.D in 1917 and applied for naturalization as a U.S. citizen in 1918. The following year he was employed by Harvard as an Instructor in Oral Pathology and an Assistant in Comparative Anatomy. He practised in Boston and taught at the Harvard Dental School where the Leonard D. Nathan scholarship fund was established in 1967. He died at Brookline in July 1978. ### Class of 1921 expand\_more #### Stanley Mabbutt Miller Stanley Mabbutt Miller (1890– ) was born at Montreal, Quebec. In 1914, he applied for registration to the Dental Board of Western Australia on the basis of an examination from the College of Preceptors. The application was refused as it did not comply with the Dental Act and rules. Advertisements from 1915 place him as a dentist at Kalgoorlie (‘late Birmingham University’). In 1917, he was fined at the Menzies Police Court (Western Australian goldfields) for practising as a dentist in violation of the Dental Act. From 1918 to 1921 he was a student at the Harvard Dental School where he graduated D.M.D. He subsequently practised in Canada and New Zealand. #### Owen Cecil Earls Davis Owen Cecil Earls Davis (1891–1971) was born at Woollahra, New South Wales. He was a student at St. Andrew’s College, University of Sydney. He enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps in July 1915 and returned to Australia in March 1919. He was a student at Harvard Dental School 1919–1921 where he obtained the D.M.D. He returned to New South Wales where he practised at Neutral Bay, Narrabeen, Eden Monaro, Dungog, and Wyong. ### Class of 1923 expand\_more #### Thomas Morrison Lloyd Thomas Morrison Lloyd (1895– ) was born at Mackay, Queensland. He enlisted in 1916, served in the Australian Army Medical Corps (dental) and returned to Australia 1919. He received his B.D.S. from the University of Sydney (1922) and D.M.D. from Harvard University (1923). He practised in Sydney where he was a member of the Board of Control of the United Dental Hospital. ### Class of 1924 expand\_more #### Bruce McEwen Bruce McEwen was the son of a New South Wales country dentist who practiced at Nyngan and Cobar. Bruce McEwen himself practiced at Nyngan after gaining his Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Sydney (1919). In 1924, he obtained the one-year D.M.D. from Harvard University before returning to practice in Dubbo and Bathurst (with a brief stint in the big smoke of Sydney). He was the father of Betty Jean Harvard McEwen. #### Leslie Pudney Leslie Pudney (1891) was born at Ashfield, Sydney. He received his B.D.S. from the University of Sydney in 1916 and was appointed that year as a dentist in the New South Wales Department of Education. He received the Harvard D.M.D in 1924. He travelled to public schools throughout New South Wales providing dental care for school children. He rose through the ranks to become Director of the School Dental Division of the State Department of Health. #### Walter John Wearn Walter John Wearn (1899–1984) was born at Tamworth, New South Wales. He went to school in Brisbane. He received the Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Sydney (1923) and Doctor of Dental Medicine from Harvard University (1924). He worked at the Mayo Clinic and University of Tokyo before returning to Australia. In 1931, he was the third person to receive a Doctor of Dental Science from the University of Sydney for his thesis on cleft palate. He practised in Sydney and Canberra. He was awarded an O.B.E. in 1971. ### Class of 1925 expand\_more #### John Kirby Brooks John Kirby Brooks (1899– ) was born at Sydney, the son of a policeman. He received the B.D.S. degree from the University of Sydney (1922) and D.M.D. from Harvard University (1925). He served with the dental service of the Australian Army during World War II. #### Harrie Twynam Burrows Harrie Twynam Burrows (1898–1971) was born and died at Orange, New South Wales. He attended Harvard Dental School 1924–1925 as a special student and did not obtain a degree. ### Class of 1926 expand\_more #### Maurice Darlow Asplin Maurice Darlow Asplin (1901–1983) was born at St. Leonard’s, Sydney. He received the B.D.S. from University of Sydney (1924) and D.M.D. from Harvard University (1926). He practised in Canberra during the 1930s. He was a Captain in the Australian General Hospital during World War II. After the war he practised in Victoria. #### William Lancelot Nevill William Lancelot Nevill (1903–1928) was born at Marrickville, New South Wales. He obtained a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Sydney in 1924 and the Harvard D.M.D. in 1926. He died at Roseville, New South Wales on May 18, 1928. ### Class of 1927 expand\_more #### Arthur Stafford Crane Arthur Stafford Crane (1899–1972) was born at Hobart, Tasmania. He was working as a shipping clerk in Sydney in July 1917 when he enlisted in the A.I.F. as a sapper. He received the B.D.S. from University of Sydney (1925) and D.M.D. from Harvard University (1927). He practiced in Sydney. #### Harold Paterson Bradford Harold Paterson Bradford (1896– ) was born at Paterson, New South Wales. He was employed as a clerk when he enlisted in September 1915. He received a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Sydney in 1924 and worked as a travelling dentist in northern Queensland and Papua. He obtained the one-year Doctor of Dental Medicine from Harvard University in 1927 and then practiced in Dubbo, New South Wales. ### Class of 1929 expand\_more #### John Dennis Gribble Dunn John Dennis Gribble Dunn (1903?–1960) studied for a year at Boston University before gaining admission to the four-year program at Harvard Dental School where he received the D.M.D. in 1929. He practised in Western Australia. #### Keith William Laws Keith William Laws was born in 1902 at Bathurst, New South Wales. He received the B.D.S. degree from University of Sydney in 1924. In 1927, his travelling dental parlour was destroyed by fire near Emerald Queensland. He obtained his D.M.D from Harvard University in 1929. After a world tour in which he is reported to have attended the young Princess Elizabeth, he settled briefly in Sydney, before establishing a dental practice in London. During the Second World War he was a commissioned officer in the Dental Branch of the Royal Air Force. #### George Pengwerne Matthews George Pengwerne Matthews (1898 –1962) was born at Sandgate, Queensland. He enlisted in the Australian Flying Corps in April 1917 and returned to Australia in May 1919. In 1920 he enrolled at the University of Sydney. By 1925, he was a Lecturer in Dental Histology at the University. He came to Harvard in 1928 and is listed as an ‘unclassified student’ at the Dental School. In 1929, he received his D.M.D. from Harvard and became a Fellow of the Royal Medical Society. He was an Assistant in Dental Research at the Harvard Dental School (1929–1933) and a Teaching Fellow in Histology (1930–1932) at the Medical School, where he appears to have been in charge of a research laboratory in dental anatomy. He was then promoted to Instructor in Dental Research (1933–1935) and Instructor in Anatomy (1933–1935). He added the further qualifications L.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) 1933, L.R.C.S. (Edinburgh) 1933, L.R.F.P. and S. (Glasgow) 1933 and was a lecturer at McGill University (1935) where he obtained a masters degree in surgery. In 1936 he resigned his positions at Harvard to return to Australia where he practised as a cardiologist. ### Class of 1933 expand\_more #### Harold Favenc Paul Chin Harold Favenc Paul Chin ( –1987) was a New Zealander who graduated with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Sydney (1930) and a Doctor of Medical Dentistry from Harvard (1933). He returned to Sydney and married a local dental assistant Nora Assheton in 1933. After his marriage, he adopted the name Assheton-Chin and practised in Sydney. ### Class of 1935 expand\_more #### Harold Harman Mantle Finemore Harold Harman Mantle Finemore (1909– ) was born in Queensland. He obtained a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Sydney (1932) and the Doctor of Medical Dentistry from Harvard (1935). He practised in Bundaberg and Brisbane. ### Class of 1941 expand\_more #### Samuel Albert Murray Tout Samuel Albert Murray Tout (c. 1912– c. 1980) was born at Tamworth, New South Wales, where his father worked for the public service. The family settled in Chatswood Sydney in 1916. He attended Chatswood Boys’ Intermediate High School, North Sydney Boys’ High School, and Fort Street Boys’ High School. From 1930 to 1933, he studied at the University of Sydney from where he obtained the degree Bachelor of Dental Surgery. In August 1939, he left Sydney for North America where he obtained a Doctor of Dental Science from the University of Toronto (1940). He then studied as a postdoctoral student at the Harvard dental school (1940–1941), before returning to practice in Sydney. ### HDS Graduates by Year expand\_more (See Individual Bio Statements at Left) ##### Class of 1887 Peter Crank ##### Class of 1893 Frank Merrett Wilkinson ##### Class of 1898 Ernest Harold Christopher Bailey ##### Francis William Bailey ##### Class of 1899 Alfred Cooper Nathan ##### Class of 1903 Thomas William Lee Wilson ##### Class of 1904 Christopher William Hurworth ##### Class of 1905 George Stephen Smith Greenwell ##### Howard Robinson Greenwell ##### Walter Oscar Paul ##### Class of 1906 Percie Chater Charlton ##### Class of 1908 Alexander James Wright ##### Class of 1914 Thomas Alexander Moffat Wilson ##### Class of 1915 Samuel Vaughan Selby ##### Class of 1916 Russell Lee Newling ##### Class of 1917 William Eyres Bennett ##### Arthur William Elworthy ##### Leonard Daniel Nathan ##### Class of 1921 Stanley Mabbutt Miller Cecil Earls Davis ##### Class of 1922 John Victor Hall Best ##### Class of 1923 Thomas Morrison Lloyd ##### Class of 1924 Bruce McEwen ##### Leslie Pudney ##### Walter John Wearn ##### Class of 1925 John Kirby Brooks ##### Harrie Twynam Burrows ##### Class of 1926 Maurice Darlow Asplin ##### William Lancelot Nevill ##### Class of 1927 Arthur Stafford Crane ##### Harold Paterson Bradford ##### Class of 1929 John Dennis Gribble Dunn ##### Keith William Laws ##### George Pengwerne Matthews ##### Class of 1933 Harold Favenc Paul Chin ##### Class of 1935 Harold Harman Mantle Finemore ##### Class of 1941 Samuel Albert Murray To