William Anthony Paddon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian physician and Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland
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Place of Birth: Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
About William Anthony Paddon
- William Anthony "Tony" Paddon, (July 10, 1914 – January 5, 1995) was a Canadian surgeon and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland from 1981-1986. Born in Indian Harbour, Labrador, Newfoundland, the son of Dr.
- Harry Locke Paddon (1881-1939) and Mina Gilchrist, a physician and a nurse, respectively, with the International Grenfell Association.
- He received a Bachelor of Science in 1936 from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
- He received his Doctor of Medicine in 1940 from New York Medical College.
- During World War II, he served with the Royal Canadian Navy as a surgeon. After the war, he returned to Labrador with the International Grenfell Association, serving as doctor at the North West River hospital.
- He was the director of the IGA from 1960 until his retirement in 1978.
- He married Sheila Fortescue, also an IGA nurse. In 1981, he was the first, and so far only Labradorian to be appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- He served until 1986. In 1986, he published his autobiography, Labrador Doctor: My Life with the Grenfell Mission. In 1977 he received an honorary doctorate from Memorial University.
- In 1978, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 1988. On 21 June 2014, a new building at CFS St.
- John's was named after him.
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