Dr. Wilfred Kent Hughes and his second wife Constance came to Eltham around the end of 1925, ostensibly for a six-month break, but stayed for over ten years. He enlisted at 50 years of age while in Bruce-street, Toorak, shown as a medical practitioner and with a brother, Rev Canon Ernest Selwyn Hughes, St Peter’s […]
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Dr. Mary Ethel Thornton : Radiologist of Warrandyte
After earlier connections to Preston shortly after what appears to have been an unsuccessful first marriage, Dr. Mary Ethel Josephine Thornton, nee Cantwell established a further connection to the north and north-eastern suburbs when in 1937 she married Dr. Wilfred Kent Hughes, a prominent Eltham resident for over a decade before moving to Warrandyte circa […]