Claude Stump
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Claude Witherington Stump FRSE (28 October 1891 – 23 December 1971) was an Australian embryologist who served in two wars.{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1464015?c=people|title=Stump, Claude Witherington (1891-1971) - People and organisations|website=Trove|accessdate=2018-10-09}}
Life
He was born at Austral Terrace in Malvern near Adelaide on 28 October 1891, the second child of Alfred Augustus Stump a well-known Tasmanian photographer, by his second wife, Rosa Ada Potter. He was educated at the Kyre College (now Scotch College, Adelaide) in Unley{{cite book|chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stump-claude-witherington-11797|title=Biography - Claude Witherington Stump - Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter=Stump, Claude Witherington (1891–1971) |website=adb.anu.edu.au|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |accessdate=2018-10-09}} and the University of Adelaide.Read, Peter, and Alex Pouw-Bray, "Ninety Years at Torrens Park: the Scotch College Story, Wakefield Press, 2010.{{rp|21}}
He went to Edinburgh in Scotland to study medicine in 1910.
He joined the British Red Cross prior to the First World War to provide medical aid to the Serbian Army in the Balkan War 1912–1913. In 1914 at the onset of the First World War he joined the 8th (Service) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was promoted to lieutenant in January 1915.london Gazette 27 January 1915{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1058818|title=Lieutenant Claude Witherington STUMP. The King's Own Scottish Borderers.|website=The National Archives|accessdate=2018-10-09}} He fought at Loos and on the Somme, then in 1916 he returned to Edinburgh to complete his degree, graduating with an MB ChB in 1917. He returned to Australia in December 1917 and joined the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) as a captain, embarking from Adelaide in 1918 on HMAT "Borda"{{cite web|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1905617|title=Claude Witherington Stump {{pipe}} The Australian War Memorial|website=awm.gov.au|accessdate=2018-10-09}} and returning to France to serve with the 11th Field Ambulance. He was demobbed in November 1919{{cite web|url=http://beyond1914.sydney.edu.au/profile/4141/claude-witherington-stump|title=Claude Witherington Stump - Beyond 1914 - Book of Remembrance|website=beyond1914.sydney.edu.au|accessdate=2018-10-09}} at the rank of captain.{{cite web|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1583782|title=Claude Witherington Stump {{pipe}} The Australian War Memorial|website=awm.gov.au|accessdate=2018-10-09}}
He received a Crichton Scholarship in 1920 and began lecturing in anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. He also worked as a surgeon in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1922 he was appointed a Carnegie Research Fellow. In the same year he won the Gunning Victoria jubilee prize for his MD thesis "Histogenesis of the Bone". In 1924 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Histology at the University of Bangkok (partly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1926 he returned to Australia as associate professor of anatomy at Sydney University. Two years later the university made him the first Bosch Professor of Embryology and Histology and he remained in that role until retiral in 1956. His position as Bosch Professor was filled by Kenneth Wollaston Cleland.{{cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/anatomy/about/bosch-chair.php|title=The Bosch Chair of Histology and Embryology - Anatomy & Histology - The University of Sydney|website=sydney.edu.au|accessdate=2018-10-09}}
In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Robinson, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, James Lorrain Smith and Charles George Lambie.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
From 1935 to 1938 he lived in Parramatta. He then moved to Bradfield.{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/?name=Claude+Witherington_Stump|title=Claude Witherington Stump - Ancestry.com|website=ancestry.co.uk|accessdate=2018-10-09}} He retired to Palm Beach, New South Wales.
He died at Mona Vale on 23 December 1971. He was cremated with no religious service.
Family
In 1920 he married Christina Margaret Calder Urquhart (1893–1965) from Eskbank near Edinburgh.{{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/names/claude_stump|title=Claude Stump - Historical records and family trees|website=MyHeritage|accessdate=2018-10-09}} They married at the North British Hotel in Edinburgh.
They had one son and two daughters.
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