Arthur Cudmore

Sir Arthur Murray Cudmore (1870 to 1951) was an Australian surgeon and university teacher in Adelaide. Born at Paringa on the River Murray in South Australia, he graduated in medicine and surgery at the University of Adelaide in 1894, then spent five years in Britain, including a post as house surgeon at the London Hospital, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Back in Adelaide he lectured in clinical surgery and served as consulting surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He served as a consulting surgeon with the Australian forces in the First World War and again in the Second. With Herbert Gill-Williams he started the university Dental School, and he later headed the Faculty of Dentistry and the state Medical Board. He was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1936 and a knight in 1945.