Trentham

Distinguished and Famous people from Trentham

🩺 Dr Gweneth Wisewould

Gweneth Wisewould brought extensive hospital and surgical experience to Trentham when she established her country practice in 1938. She had graduated in medicine in 1915, one of only four women in her class, and worked in surgery, infectious diseases and anaesthetics in Melbourne. Trentham demanded a different range of skills: patients were scattered across rugged country, and emergencies might require treatment in isolated homes as well as the small hospital. She remained the town's doctor until her death in 1972. Her long local service connected considerable medical training with the practical resourcefulness needed to care for a dispersed rural community.

🥕 Annie Smithers

Annie Smithers's cooking at du Fermier gives Trentham a direct connection with a food writer, chef and grower known for a close relationship between garden and kitchen. Fruit and vegetables grown at Babbington Park in nearby Lyonville supply the restaurant, linking the menu with the seasons and the practical limits of what the garden produces. Her working day can begin with baking baguettes before cooking for the small dining room. The connection combines a Trentham restaurant with a regional farming life, making the often-used phrase paddock to plate a matter of daily work.