Sir Arthur Murray Cudmore CMG FRCS (11 June 1870 – 27 February 1951) was a leading surgeon and professor at the

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in the first half of the 20th century.

History

Cudmore was born at

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on the River Murray. Educated at St. Peter's College and the

, he graduated in surgery and medicine in 1894. Five years' post-graduate study in Britain followed — for a while he was a house surgeon at

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— after which he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Later he became lecturer in clinical surgery at the University of Adelaide and consulting surgeon at the

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. Cudmore had a distinguished record in World War I. He left Australia with the rank of lieutenant-colonel as consulting surgeon to the 3rd Australian General Hospital. After being invalided home with typhoid in 1916, he became consulting surgeon for the 4th Military District at Keswick. In August, 1918 he again went overseas, this time to the AIF in France, where he served for almost 12 months. After the war he resumed his post as consulting surgeon on the Australian Army Medical Corps Reserve, and in World War II was chief surgeon at No. 7 AGH, Keswick. Cudmore, assisted by Herbert Gill-Williams, started the

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. Elected a member of the University Council in 1927, he was Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry and president of the Dental Board. He was also a member of the advisory committee of the

, where he was honorary surgeon from 1904 to 1925. Executive Council appointed him president of the Medical Board of SA in 1938.

Other interests

Cudmore was a keen motorist, and helped to found the Automobile Club of SA (later

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), of which he was elected president in 1935. He was a member of the

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, and its president from 1925 to 1927.

Recognition

Cudmore was appointed a Companion of the

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(CMG) on 1 January 1936. He was made a

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on 1 January 1945.

Personal

Sir Arthur was the second son of pastoralist James Francis Cudmore (ca.1848–1912), a grandson of

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(1811–1891) and cousin of Sir Collier Robert Cudmore. He married Kathleen Mary Cavenagh–Mainwaring (11 February 1874 – 8 March 1951) on 13 August 1901. (Kathleen's father, Wentworth Cavenagh–Mainwaring had represented the district of Yatala in the

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from 1863 to 1881 and served as Commissioner of Crown Lands and Public Works.) She survived him by a little over a week. Their children were: *Rosemary Mainwaring Cudmore (1904– ) married her cousin Rafe Gordon Dutton Cavenagh–Mainwaring, of

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on 11 June 1931 *Kathleen Cavenagh Mainwaring Cudmore (27 June 1908 – 11 June 2013) married (Richard) Geoffrey Champion de Crespigny on 10 June 1933. Richard Geoffrey Champion de Crespigny (16 June 1907 – 12 February 1966) was a son of C. T. C. de Crespigny (1882–1952). A widow, she married again, to George William Symes (1896–1980) on 30 March 1967.Roger André
'Symes, George William (1896–1980)'
''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 15 May 2013

References

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