Lindsey Page Winterbotham

Lindsey Page Winterbotham (1887–1960) was an Australian doctor and anthropologist, who helped to establish the Anthropology Museum at the University of Queensland.

Early life Lindsey Page Winterbotham was born on 14 April 1887 in North Adelaide, South Australia. He attended the Collegiate School of St Peter. He enrolled in medicine at the University of Adelaide but transferred to the University of Melbourne in his third year where he graduated with an MB BS in 1908. He moved to Queensland where he undertook his medical residency at the Brisbane General Hospital. After working as locum in several country towns Winterbotham established his own practice in Lowood in 1909. In 1912 he married nurse Constance Mary Moore. They moved to Annerley in Brisbane where Winterbotham established his practice and remained there until his death. He donated his considerable collection of Aboriginal artefacts to establish an anthropology museum at the University of Queensland in 1948, confident that the collection would be preserved and useful to the establishment of a course at the university. He placed advertisements in newspapers and used his medical network to invite people to donate Aboriginal artefacts to the further establishment of the collection, applying recommendations on the content they hoped to receive. using advice from Norman Tindale to refine his questions relating to language. although he had been able to record some of Gairarbau's corroboree songs which he offered for sale as long play records. Winterbotham was honorary secretary of the society from 1948 to 1949 and its president from 1954 to 1955.

Personal life Winterbotham died on 26 February 1960 in Brisbane and was survived by his wife, Constance, and their five sons and one daughter.