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James Thomson Paton was born at Trial Bay where his father Robert Thomson Paton (later to become Director General of Public Health for NSW) was the first medical officer to the Gaol. `Hamish', as he was more familiarly known, grew up in Dawes Point. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and later at Sydney University from which he graduated in 1911. He originally practised in Blackheath and on the outbreak of war joined the AIF. On the troopship his health deteriorated and he was returned to Australia. After the War he practised first in Millthorpe and then in Orange as a physician in general practice. He was a partner of the re...