Joseph St Clair

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.