Person

Hilton, Roger Norman (1927 - 2012)

Born
1927
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Died
20 June 2012
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Mycologist

Summary

Roger Hilton was a mycologist who spent over 15 years as Plant Pathologist for the Rubber Institute of Malaysia where he made significant contributions to the control disease in plantations. In 1964 he became Lecturer in mycology at the University of Western Australia, retiring in 1987 as Senior Lecturer. During this time he was curator of the University's mycological herbarium: after his retirement these 3,000 voucher specimens were transferred to the Western Australian Herbarium. Hilton was known as an inspiring teacher. His research was wide-ranging and often involved extensive correspondence with mycologists in Australia and all over the world. Among his publications was the most substantial census of Western Australian macrofungi (Hilton 1982, 1988).

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Chronology

1948
Education - Gradusted from the University of Cambridge
1948 - 1964
Career position - Plant Pathologist, Rubber Research Institute of Malaya
1964 - 1987
Career position - Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer), Department of Botany, University of Western Australia
1987
Life event - Retired
1989
Life event - Naturalised as an Australian citizen
1994 - 1998
Career position - Volunteer in mycology, Western Australian Herbarium

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Journal Articles

  • Bougher, Neale L., 'A tribute to Roger Norman Hilton (1927 - 2012)', Western Australian naturalist, 28 (4) (2012), 313-21. Details
  • Bougher, Neale L., 'A tribute to Roger Norman Hilton (1927 - 2012)', Australasian mycologist, 31 (2013), 11-5. Details
  • Hilton, R. N., 'A census of the larger fungi of Western Australia', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 65 (1982), 1-15. Details
  • Hilton, R. N., 'The Drummond collection of Western Australian fungi at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew', Nuytsia, 4 (1983), 333-57. Details
  • Hilton, R. N., 'A census of the larger fungi of Western Australia, part II', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 70 (1988), 111-8. Details
  • Hilton, R. N., 'The Preiss collection of Western Australian fungi', Nuytsia, 6 (1988), 296-304. Details

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