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Home Coming meetings Past meetings About the Society Galleries of the Virtual Museum Main Galleries Medicine Surgery Anaesthesia X-rays Hospitals,other organisations Individuals of note Small Galleries Dentistry Nursing Ethnic medicine - Aboriginal - Chinese - Mediterran	Benjamin Poulton MB, ChB, MRCS, MD [1851-1921] "A gentleman of reserved temperament who loved his life work and wherever possible advanced the profession." Benjamin Poulton MD MRCS (1851-1921). Benjamin Poulton was born in Geelong, Victoria in 1851, son of Benjamin Poulton (1819-1910), a chemist who in 1866 moved to Melbourne to establish a homeopathic pharmacy. The junior Benjamin Poulton graduated MB from the University of Melbourne in 1874, practiced in rural Queensland, and obtained his ChB in 1879. He then moved to London where he worked at the prestigious St Bartholomew's and St Thomas's hospitals, gaining a MRCS. In 1882 Poulton returned to Australia to became a staff surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital which "by offering good salaries was able to attract good men" and thus improve standards. The University of Melbourne awarded him an MD in 1884 and in 1890 Poulton became a lecturer in surgery at the University of Adelaide, and in 1892 Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Poulton was the chief initiator and then the secretary of the first triennial Intercolonial (later the Australasian) Medical Congress held in 1887 in Adelaide as part of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Exhibition. He filled that position again when the Congress returned to Adelaide in 1905. Poulton was also honorary Secretary of the South Australian Branch of the BMA (later the AMA) from 1888 to 1891 and then it's President for two terms two decades apart. For some years he was also editor of the Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia - the precursor of the Medical Journal of Australia. Well known in the community, Poulton gave public lectures and taught first aid to community organisations. Outside of medicine, Poulton was on the committee of the patriotic Royal Society of St. George, he was a zealous advocate of afforestation, and a governor of the charitable Wyatt Benevolent Trust. In his younger days he took an interest in golf, and was also "fond of the gun and of horses". This highly esteemed surgeon and teacher died in 1921, survived by his widow Lettice Cordelia nee Teasdel (1868-1943) and their three daughters. PK -o0o-

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Benjamin Poulton MB, ChB, MRCS, MD [1851-1921]

"A gentleman of reserved temperament who loved his life work and wherever possible advanced the profession."

Benjamin Poulton MD MRCS (1851-1921).

Benjamin Poulton was born in Geelong, Victoria in 1851, son of Benjamin Poulton (1819-1910), a chemist who in 1866 moved to Melbourne to establish a homeopathic pharmacy.

The junior Benjamin Poulton graduated MB from the University of Melbourne in 1874, practiced in rural Queensland, and obtained his ChB in 1879. He then moved to London where he worked at the prestigious St Bartholomew's and St Thomas's hospitals, gaining a MRCS.

In 1882 Poulton returned to Australia to became a staff surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital which "by offering good salaries was able to attract good men" and thus improve standards. The University of Melbourne awarded him an MD in 1884 and in 1890 Poulton became a lecturer in surgery at the University of Adelaide, and in 1892 Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.

Poulton was the chief initiator and then the secretary of the first triennial Intercolonial (later the Australasian) Medical Congress held in 1887 in Adelaide as part of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Exhibition. He filled that position again when the Congress returned to Adelaide in 1905. Poulton was also honorary Secretary of the South Australian Branch of the BMA (later the AMA) from 1888 to 1891 and then it's President for two terms two decades apart. For some years he was also editor of the Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia - the precursor of the Medical Journal of Australia.

Well known in the community, Poulton gave public lectures and taught first aid to community organisations.

Outside of medicine, Poulton was on the committee of the patriotic Royal Society of St. George, he was a zealous advocate of afforestation, and a governor of the charitable Wyatt Benevolent Trust. In his younger days he took an interest in golf, and was also "fond of the gun and of horses".

This highly esteemed surgeon and teacher died in 1921, survived by his widow Lettice Cordelia nee Teasdel (1868-1943) and their three daughters.

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