Constance May Cooper

Australian medical doctor (1881 – 1964)

Constance May Cooper (27 April 1881[1] – 1964) was a medical doctor in South Australia.

Cooper was born in Adelaide, a daughter of George Windham Cooper (1857–1906) and Bertha Hannah Cooper, née Bostock, who married in 1880;[2] George was a wool expert of Elder, Smith, & Co., Ltd, and son of newspaperman George Lindsey Cooper.[3] Her mother was a stalwart worker for the WCTU and the Baptist Sunday school.[4]

Cooper was a student of the Advanced School for Girls[5] and the School of Medicine at the University of Adelaide. She was equal first in her third year, and recommended for the Elder Prize in Medicine,[6] and the Everard scholarship in her fifth year.[7] She graduated MB and BS[8] and was singled out for roasting at the Commemoration celebration.[9] She was appointed a resident medical officer at the Adelaide Hospital in December 1904, along with Phoebe Chapple and three male doctors.[10]

In 1907 she volunteered for a two-year honorary medical position at Fureedpore (modern Faridpur),[11] a Baptist mission in East Bengal, sailing by the Orontes in November[12]

Newbery Chemist, Rundle Street c. 1910

In 1909 she married Arthur Kent Newbery in London before returning to Adelaide. Newbury had a chemist shop in Norwood from 1900,[13] and from 1904 at 66 Rundle Street.[14] In 1911 he sold the lease to F. C. Catt, the draper, and merged his business with that of Birks Chemists, becoming a director of that company.[15]

Nothing has been found of their later activities.

Family

Cooper married Arthur Kent Newbery (1877–1954) in London on 10 May 1909.[16] They had two sons:

  • George Arthur Newbery (10 November 1911 – 1976) worked as a storeman at Birks Chemists until his death in 1976. He took no part in social or civic activities. His ashes were interred with his parents' remains.
  • Kent Newbery (2 March 1918 – 29 August 1942) died when the Lancaster bomber on which he was deployed was shot down over Nuremberg.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Family Notices". South Australian Register. Vol. XLVI, no. 10, 762. South Australia. 12 May 1881. p. 3 (Supplement). Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Family Notices". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XVII, no. 4, 888. South Australia. 28 April 1880. p. 2. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "George W. Cooper". The Observer (Adelaide). Vol. LXIII, no. 3, 372. South Australia. 19 May 1906. p. 36. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Personal". The Critic (Adelaide). Vol. XI, no. 591. South Australia. 17 March 1909. p. 9. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "The University of Adelaide". Evening Journal (Adelaide). Vol. XXXII, no. 9135. South Australia. 22 March 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Examination". Adelaide Observer. Vol. LIX, no. 3, 192. South Australia. 6 December 1902. p. 36. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "University of Adelaide". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. XLVII, no. 14, 384. South Australia. 23 November 1904. p. 9. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Topics of the Day". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. XLVII, no. 14, 402. South Australia. 14 December 1904. p. 6. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "The Proceedings". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. LXIX, no. 18, 125. South Australia. 15 December 1904. p. 6. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "The Adelaide Hospital". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XLII, no. 12, 377. South Australia. 29 December 1904. p. 1. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ "Personal". The Critic (Adelaide). Vol. IX, no. 507. South Australia. 24 July 1907. p. 14. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ^ "Personal". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. L, no. 15, 307. South Australia. 8 November 1907. p. 4. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ "Advertising". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XXXVII, no. 11, 072. South Australia. 11 September 1900. p. 1. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ^ "Advertising". Evening Journal (Adelaide). Vol. XXXVII, no. 10346. South Australia. 21 March 1904. p. 4. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^ "General News". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. LIV, no. 16, 550. South Australia. 1 November 1911. p. 8. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  16. ^ "Family Notices". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. LXXIV, no. 19, 499. South Australia. 12 May 1909. p. 4. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  17. ^ "Girl Reporter's Flight in Famous Plane". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 32, no. 1, 617. South Australia. 22 May 1943. p. 5. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
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