Harry Paddon

Henry Locke Paddon (9 August 1881 – 1939) was a British doctor and medical missionary in Canada and Newfoundland.

Life Paddon was the son of Henry Wadham Locke Paddon (1839–1933) and his wife Catherine Van Sommer; his father was son of the Rev. (Thomas) Henry Paddon and his wife Anne Locke, a daughter of Wadham Locke. He was born in Thornton Heath on 9 August 1881. For a period after her death they were brought up by their paternal grandparents, the Paddons. In 1883, however, their father suffered a breakdown that saw him permanently confined to an asylum. They were then fostered by their maternal grandparents, the Van Sommers, in Wimbledon Park: first the two eldest girls moved there in 1883, and then Harry and his other sister joined them in 1888, having stayed with the Paddons in Eastbourne lodgings (Henry Paddon died in 1887).

Paddon had a better relationship with Nain's Moravian mission than Grenfell, and was in 1930 able to bring a medical cruise in the Maraval there. His preoccupations included tuberculosis and education. He died in 1939 of a bacterial infection.