Australian Dictionary of Biography

21 July, 1921
Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

10 April, 2000 (aged 78)
St Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Lismore District Rural School (student, 1926-1932)
• Lismore High School (NSW) (student, 1933-1938)
• University of Sydney (botany) (student, 1939-1943)
• University of Sydney (botany) (student, 1949-1953)

• schoolteacher (1944-1945) New South Wales, Australia
• botanist (1945-1953) New South Wales, Australia
• botanist (1953-1954) Overseas
• academic (1954-1978) New South Wales, Australia
• botanist (1954-1983) New South Wales, Australia

• Mosman Croquet Club (Sydney) (life member)

• Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens (foundation member)
• Junior Red Cross Society (member, 1930-1938)
• Linnean Society of New South Wales (member, 1943-2000)
• Linnean Society of New South Wales (council member, 1970-1974)

• Ascham School (Sydney) (teacher, 1944-1945)
• University of Sydney (botany) (demonstrator, 1945-1949)
• Chester Beatty Research Institute, Royal Cancer Hospital (UK) (researcher, 1953-1954)
• University of New South Wales (lecturer, 1954-1959)
• University of New South Wales (senior lecturer, 1959-1972)
• University of New South Wales (associate professor, 1972-1978)