# Harry Paddon

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**Henry Locke Paddon** (9 August 1881 – 1939) was a British doctor and medical missionary in Canada and Newfoundland.[1]

## Life

Paddon was the son of Henry Wadham Locke Paddon (1839–1933) and his wife Catherine Van Sommer; his father was son of the Rev. (Thomas) Henry Paddon and his wife Anne Locke, a daughter of [Wadham Locke](/source/Wadham_Locke).[1][2][3] He was born in [Thornton Heath](/source/Thornton_Heath) on 9 August 1881.[1] There were four children in the family: their mother died four days after his birth, of what was known as milk fever[2] (a [postpartum infection](/source/Postpartum_infection)).[4] For a period after her death they were brought up by their paternal grandparents, the Paddons. In 1883, however, their father suffered a breakdown that saw him permanently confined to an asylum. They were then fostered by their maternal grandparents, the Van Sommers, in [Wimbledon Park](/source/Wimbledon_Park): first the two eldest girls moved there in 1883, and then Harry and his other sister joined them in 1888, having stayed with the Paddons in [Eastbourne](/source/Eastbourne) lodgings (Henry Paddon died in 1887).[2]

Paddon was educated at [Woodbridge Grammar School](/source/Woodbridge_Grammar_School), and [Repton School](/source/Repton_School) under [William Mordaunt Furneaux](/source/William_Mordaunt_Furneaux). He entered [University College, Oxford](/source/University_College,_Oxford) in 1900; his grandfather James Van Sommer died in 1901. A troubled student, he graduated in 1906. Through the [Fishermen's Mission](/source/Fishermen's_Mission) (RNMDSF), he encountered again [Wilfred Grenfell](/source/Wilfred_Grenfell), who had visited Repton. He studied at [St Thomas's Hospital](/source/St_Thomas's_Hospital), qualifying in early 1911, and taking a position at the [Guest Hospital](/source/Guest_Hospital) in the Midlands.[1][2]

In 1912 Paddon moved to the hospital at [Indian Harbour, Labrador](/source/Indian_Harbour,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador) founded by Grenfell, for the RNMDSF. He also took on duties at [Lake Melville](/source/Lake_Melville). He married Mina Gilchrist, a nurse from [New Brunswick](/source/New_Brunswick), in 1913. In 1915 he moved to the hospital at [North West River](/source/North_West_River). In 1924 the hospital burned down: Paddon saw it rebuilt in a matter of months. He addressed [malnutrition](/source/Malnutrition) in the local population.[1]

In 1927, Paddon wrote the [Ode to Labrador](/source/Ode_to_Labrador), which would eventually be adopted as regional anthem.[5]

Paddon had a better relationship with [Nain](/source/Nain,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador)'s Moravian mission than Grenfell, and was in 1930 able to bring a medical cruise in the *Maraval* there.[6] His preoccupations included [tuberculosis](/source/Tuberculosis) and education. He died in 1939 of a bacterial infection.[1]

## Notes

1. ["Biography – Paddon, Henry Locke – Volume XVI (1931-1940) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography"](http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/paddon_henry_locke_16E.html). Retrieved 21 September 2017.

1. Paddon, Harry & Rompkey, Ronald (2003-07-16). ["Introduction"](https://books.google.com/books?id=EqRuek16R9UC&pg=PR14). *Labrador Memoir of Dr Harry Paddon, 1912–1938*. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. xiii–xvii. ISBN 9780773570818. Retrieved 21 September 2017.

1. Burke, Bernard (1879). ["A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland"](https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhera02byuburk#page/979/mode/1up). *[Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)*. Vol. 2. London: Harrison. p. 979. Retrieved 21 September 2017.

1. Eden, Thomas Watts (1908). [*A Manual of midwifery*](https://archive.org/details/amanualmidwifer00edengoog). 2nd ed. Chicago: W.T. Keener & Company. p. [406](https://archive.org/details/amanualmidwifer00edengoog/page/n463)

1. ["Ode to Labrador : Labrador Heritage Society"](http://www.labradorheritagemuseum.ca/home/ode.htm). *www.labradorheritagemuseum.ca*. Retrieved 2019-02-07.

1. Rompkey, Ronald (2009). [*Grenfell of Labrador: A Biography*](https://books.google.com/books?id=C-4vinI1D4oC&pg=PA247). McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 247. ISBN 9780773575196. Retrieved 22 September 2017.

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