Claude Witherington Stump FRSE (28 October 1891 – 23 December 1971) was an Australian embryologist who served in two wars.

Life

He was born at Austral Terrace in Malvern near

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on 28 October 1891, the second child of Alfred Augustus Stump a well-known

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n photographer, by his second wife, Rosa Ada Potter. He was educated at the Kyre College (now

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) in

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and the

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.Read, Peter, and Alex Pouw-Bray, "Ninety Years at Torrens Park: the Scotch College Story, Wakefield Press, 2010. He went to

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to study medicine in 1910. He joined the

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prior to the

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to provide medical aid to the

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n Army in the

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1912–1913. In 1914 at the onset of the

he joined the 8th battalion

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. He was promoted to lieutenant in January 1915. He fought at Loos and on the Somme, then in 1916 he returned to Edinburgh to complete his degree, graduating with an

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in 1917. He returned to Australia in December 1917 and joined the

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(AAMC) as a captain, embarking from Adelaide in 1918 on HMAT "Borda" and returning to France to serve with the 11th Field Ambulance. He was demobbed in November 1919 at the rank of captain. He received a Crichton Scholarship in 1920 and began lecturing in anatomy at the

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. He also worked as a surgeon in the

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. In 1922 he was appointed a Carnegie Research Fellow. In the same year he won the Gunning Victoria jubilee prize for his MD thesis "Histogenesis of the Bone". In 1924 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy and

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at the University of Bangkok (partly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1926 he returned to Australia as associate professor of anatomy at Sydney University. Two years later the university made him the first Bosch Professor of Embryology and Histology and he remained in that role until retiral in 1956. His position as Bosch Professor was filled by Kenneth Wollaston Cleland. In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Robinson, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, James Lorrain Smith and

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. From 1935 to 1938 he lived in

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. He then moved to Bradfield. He retired to

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. He died at Mona Vale on 23 December 1971. He was cremated with no religious service.

Family

In 1920 he married Christina Margaret Calder Urquhart (1893–1965) from Eskbank near

. They married at the North British Hotel in

. They had one son and two daughters.

References

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