Tenth Generation

674. Beatrice Mary BELLINGHAM was born in 1911 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1970 at the age of 59 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Beatrice Mary BELLINGHAM and Dr. Paul Hamilton Hume WHITE were married in 1936. Dr. Paul Hamilton Hume WHITE was born on 26 February 1910 in Bowral, New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1992 at the age of 82 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Paul White was born on 26 February 1910, in Bowral, New South Wales, the only child of Richard Sibford White, a farmer, and his wife, Rose, née Morgan. Richard White enlisted in the A.I.F. in 1915 but died one month later of meningitis whilst in camp. Paul was a sickly child, suffering from bronchitis, so the family moved to Sydney where Paul attended Heathford Grammar School and Gordon Public School before attending Sydney Grammar School. White became a Christian when he was converted at a meeting held by Irish evangelist William Petteson Nicholson, and decided he wanted to work towards becoming a medical missionary Athletics Champion at Sydney Grammar School, he won an Exhibition to the University of Sydney to study medicine. He was actively involved in athletics, being awarded a ‘Blue’, and was a founding member of the Evangelical Union. He graduated MB BS in 1935 and worked in several hospitals before spending four years as Superintendent of the Church Missionary Society Hospital in Tanganyika from 1938 with his wife Mary. The couple had two children, a son, David, and a daughter, Rosemary Helen. Returning to Australia in 1942 he began radio broadcasts on his time in Africa. These broadcasts continued until 1975. His first Jungle Doctor book was published in 1942 by Paternoster Press and he quickly became a popular author. By 1959 over one million copies of his books had been published. He was best known as ‘The Jungle Doctor’. By 1977 his books had been translated into over 50 languages and sold over two million copies and his radio show ran for 32 years. Until 1973 all royalties from his novels went to Tanganyika for missionary and Christian work. His wife suffered from mental illness and died in the 1970s. Paul married his secretary, Ruth Longe, who was 25 years his junior. White died in 1992.

Beatrice Mary BELLINGHAM and Dr. Paul Hamilton Hume WHITE had the following children: