Pescott, Richard Thomas Martin (Dick) (1905 - 1986)

Summary

Dick Pescott was the seventh Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne 1957-1970. Previously he had worked in the Science Section of the Victorian Department of Agriculture and was Director of the National Museum of Victoria 1944-1957. Pescott was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne and at the University of Melbourne (MAgrSc).

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Chronology

1928

Career position - Joined Department of Agriculture

1935 - 1936

Career position - President, Entomological Society of Victoria

1935 - 1944

Career position - Government Entomologist, Department of Agriculture (March - March)

1943 - 1944

Military service - Commander, Captain, Australian Mobile Entomological Section, 2nd Australian Imperial Force

1944 - 1957

Career position - Director, National Museum of Victoria

1945 - 1946

Career position - President, Melbourne University Agricultural Society

1947

Career position - Member of the Grimwade Expedition to Western Australia

1957 - 1970

Career position - Director and Government Botanist, Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne

1963 - 1964

Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria

1970

Life event - Retired

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Pescott, R. T. M., Collections of a century: the history of the first hundred years of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne (Melbourne: National Museum of Victoria, 1954), 186 pp. Details
• Pescott, R. T. M., Bulbs for Australian gardens (Melbourne: Nelson (Australia), 1968), 172 pp. Details
• Pescott, R. T. M., W. R. Guilfoyle 1840-1912: the master of landscaping (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1974), 153 pp. Details
• Pescott, R. T. M., The memoirs of a "naturalist": a story of the goings and comings of one Richard Thomas Martin Pescott in Australia and elsewhere, by himself [unpublished.] ([Melbourne]: 1984), unpaged pp. Details
• Pescott, Richard Thomas Martin, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a history from 1845 to 1970 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982), 212 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Pescott, R. T. M., 'French, Charles (1842-1933) and Charles Hamilton (1868-1950)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 585-586. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080602b.htm. Details
• Pescott, R. T. M., 'Kershaw, James Andrew (1866-1946), Scientist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 9 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 578-579. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090579b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Pescott, R. T. M., 'The Royal Society of Victoria From Then, 1854 to Now, 1959', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 73 (1961), 1-40. Details
• Pescott, R. T. M., 'Retirement of Mr A. N. Burns', The Victorian naturalist, 81 (1964), 167-8. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7328380. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/65246809. Details
• 'Pescott, R T M (1905-1986)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-515753. Details

Resource Sections

• Pescott, R. T. M., 'The Royal Society of Victoria From Then, 1854 to Now, 1959', in Science and the making of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/003.html. Details

See also

• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_p.html. Details
• Rae, Ian D., 'Radiocarbon dating at the Museum of Applied Science Victoria 1952-70: a pioneer venture', Historical Records of Australian Science, 29 (1) (2018), 14-27, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR17019. Details