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Winterbotham, L. P. (Lindsey Page)

  • AU NLA 35940676
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  • 1887-1960

Lindsey Page Winterbotham was born on 14 April 1887 in North Adelaide, South Australia. Studied medicine, graduating from University of Melbourne in 1908. Work as a medical practitioner in Brisbane. He lectured in medical ethics at the University of Queensland and was patron of the university's medical society from 1943 to 1944. In 1948 Winterbotham, H.J. Wilkinson and F. S. Coliver establsihed the Anthropoligcal Socety of Queensland which aided to preserve the indigenous cultures of Australia, New Zealand, and Papua and New Guinea. In the same year he donated his collection of artefacts to the University of Queensland and an ethnoligcal museum was established, with him as honorary curator. He died on 26 February 1960 in South Brisbane.

Winter, Cecil H.

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Cecil H. Winter was a well known bush balladist who wrote for the Bulletin under the pen names of Riverina and Angus McEarwig.

Winspear, William Robert, 1859-1944

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  • 1859-1944

William Winspear, socialist and journalist, was born in England in 1859 and migrated to New South Wales about 1874, where he worked in the New Lambton coalmines. In 1887, he published the first issue of the 'Radical', which soon became the mouthpiece of the Australian Socialist League. The paper ceased publication in April 1890 after Winspear fell out with the League over its growing support for state socialism. Forced to sell his printing plant and move to Sydney, Winspear was unable to support his wife and five children and was imprisoned for housebreaking in a desperate attempt to provide food. While he was in prison, his 32-year-old wife Alice Maud Drake hanged herself, after being refused help by several charities. Winspear found work as a clerk on his release and in 1910 published a volume of poems. Full-time treasurer of the Australian Socialist Party from 1912-1916, he often edited its newspaper, the 'International Socialist', and was a regular contributor of poetry, articles and 'socialist fables'. His 'Essays and rhymes of the system' (1939) showed that he retained libertarian socialist convictions to the end of his life. He died in 1944.

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