Tony Paddon

William Anthony Paddon (10 July 1914 to 5 January 1995), known as Tony Paddon, was a Canadian surgeon who served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Newfoundland from 1981 to 1986. He was born at Indian Harbour in Labrador, the son of Dr. Harry Locke Paddon and Mina Gilchrist, a physician and a nurse who both worked with the International Grenfell Association. He took a science degree at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1936 and his Doctor of Medicine at New York Medical College in 1940, and he served as a surgeon with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. After the war he returned to Labrador with the Grenfell Association as physician at the North West River hospital and directed the association from 1960 until he retired in 1978. He was the first Labradorian appointed lieutenant governor. His autobiography, Labrador Doctor: My Life with the Grenfell Mission, appeared in 1986, and he became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1978 and an Officer in 1988.