Eulalie Hardy Hanton Burnard

Eulalie Hardy Hanton was born at Unley, Adelaide, South Australia on 24 December 1883 and qualified with first class honours for her MBBS in 1905. Her parents were Richard Thomas Burnard and Alice Hardy Hanton and her father was a Headmaster of schools at Moonta, Gawler and Unley. In 1896, Eulalie won a bursary for the Advanced School for Girls where she matriculated in 1899 and was awarded the Elder Prize in Medicine in the second year of her degree.

As one of the first women graduates in Medicine Eulalie seemed destined for a great career. On 23 March 1907, she married Dr Dean Dawson but a few months later she was found to have an abscess on her spine but her operation was futile.

Eulalie Hardy Hanton Dawson died in North Adelaide, 5 September 1907.