Historical information

Dr George Scantlebury (1860-1923) was a medical practitioner in Linton in the late 1880s. While practising there, he married the local postmistress Catherine Millington Baynes. Their first child Vera (born at Linton in 1889) also became a doctor, served overseas during World War 1 and was later recruited by the Victorian Health Department to establish Infant Welfare Centres around the state. The Scantlebury family moved to Cheltenham in1889.

Physical description

Black and white photograph. Head and shoulders portrait of a man with receding hair and a moustache, wearing a suit and tie. The portrait has been cut into an oval shape and mounted on beige-coloured card. Card protected by paper wrapper and tissue. Maker's mark imprinted below the photograph.