Mr Joseph St Clair
This is number 30 of 52 items associated with Identity and the City: A History of Ethnic Minorities in Bristol 1000-2001 in Explore Bristol’s Past
Occupation: Dentist
Joseph St. Clair, ‘the black dentist’ from Barbados married a Bristol girl, Mabel Stallard, and made a relatively good living in interwar Bristol. He pulled teeth at county fairs and on the Bristol Bridge and sold his own brand of toothpowder along with other herbal remedies based on Caribbean ingredients sent to him by his parents back home. Eventually banned from practicising dentistry without a licence he continued to continued to prosper as a herbalist and he and his wife raised a family in the city.
Address: Bristol,
Type: Person
Period: Interwar (1918-1939)
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Joseph St Clair is number 30 of 52 items
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