Harvey Sutton
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{{For|the original owner of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house|Harvey P. Sutton House}}
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Harvey Vincent Sutton (18 February 1882 – 21 June 1963) was an Australian athlete and public health physician. He was Victoria's second Rhodes Scholar,{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/64808 |title=Harvey Sutton |work=Olympedia |access-date=6 March 2021}} following John Behan, a fellow alumnus of Trinity College, Melbourne.
Family
The son of Castlemaine gaol warder William Sutton (1838-1912),[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10498627 Deaths: Sutton, The Argus, (Saturday, 6 July 1912), p.13.][http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10506893 Personal, The Argus, (Thursday, 11 July 1912), p.13.] and Hannah Sutton (1837-1930), née Howe,[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16741430 Deaths: Sutton, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Thursday, 25 December 1930), p.6.][http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article254163230 Personal, The Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette, (Monday, 19 January 1931), p.4.] Harvey Vincent Sutton was born at Castlemaine on 18 February 1882.
He attended school at Castlemaine and St Andrew's College, Bendigo. From 1898, he was a resident in Trinity College, Melbourne while studying medicine at the University of Melbourne (M.B., 1902; Ch.B., 1903; M.D., 1905), receiving his clinical training at Melbourne Hospital.
His older brother Edmund Hamilton "Ned" Sutton (1868-1911) played VFA football for both Carlton (1888-1889) and Melbourne (1895-1896), and also played with Melbourne (and was the team's captain) in its first two years in the VFL (1897 and 1898).
Athletics career
In 1903-04, Sutton became the Australian National Champion in the 880 yard race, having finished in third place two years earlier.{{cite web|title=Australian Open Track & Field Championships|url=http://athhistory.sportstg.com/national/matf45.htm|website=athhistory.sportstg.com|accessdate=30 August 2017|archive-date=2 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902051920/http://athhistory.sportstg.com/national/matf45.htm|url-status=dead}}
In 1905 Sutton attended New College, Oxford, for whom he competed against Cambridge in athletics and lacrosse.
He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London on the Australasia team, a combined squad of competitors from Australia and New Zealand. In the 800 metres, Sutton placed third in his initial semifinal heat and did not advance to the final. His time was 2:00.0.
Later life
Sutton become resident medical officer at Charing Cross Hospital before returning to Australia in 1909.{{cite book|title=Biography - Harvey Sutton|chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sutton-harvey-8721|website=adb.anu.edu.au|accessdate=1 September 2017|chapter=Sutton, Harvey (1882–1963)|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University}}
He served as a doctor in World War I. He was twice mentioned in despatches and in 1919 was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services in the Middle East.{{cite web|title=Harvey Sutton|url=http://corporate.olympics.com.au/athlete/harvey-sutton-12575|website=corporate.olympics.com|accessdate=30 August 2017}}
In 1921, Sutton transferred to the NSW school medical service, and in 1930, he became the first director of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Sydney. He had a particular interest in eugenic approaches to the moral and physical development of children. He believed that national development depended on state intervention in education and public health programs.
Sutton died at his home in Rose Bay, New South Wales in 1963.
Publications
- {{citation |year=1944 |author=Harvey Sutton |title=Lectures on Preventative Medicine |place=Sydney |publisher=Consolidated Press}}
Footnotes
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References
- {{cite book | last = Cook | first = Theodore Andrea | year = 1908 | title = The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report | publisher = British Olympic Association | location = London}}
- {{cite web | last = De Wael | first = Herman | year = 2001 | url = http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ath1908.html | title = Athletics 1908 | work = Herman's Full Olympians | accessdate = 29 July 2006 | archive-date = 27 September 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060927093153/http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ath1908.html | url-status = dead }}
- {{cite conference |first= John |last= Powles|title= Naturalism and hygiene: fascist affinities in Australian public health 1910-1940|book-title= Attractions of fascism |date= 24 June 1987 |location=University of New South Wales }}
- {{cite web | last = Wudarski | first = Pawel | year = 1999 | url = http://olympic.w.interia.pl/ | title = Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich | accessdate = 29 July 2006 |language=pl}}
External links
- [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120161b.htm?hilite=Sutton ADB biography]
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Category:People educated at Trinity College (University of Melbourne)
Category:Australian male middle-distance runners
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for Australasia
Category:Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
Category:Australian military personnel of World War I
Category:20th-century Australian medical doctors
Category:Australian military doctors
Category:Academic staff of the University of Sydney