Person

Lane-Poole, Charles Edward (1885 - 1970)

Born
16 August 1885
Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died
22 November 1970
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Botanical collector and Forester

Summary

Charles Lane-Poole was Conservator of Forests, Western Australia from 1916 to 1926, and in 1922 undertook a survey of the timber resources of Papua and New Guinea. From 1926 to 1945 he was Inspector-General, Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, and Acting Principal of the Australian Forestry School, Canberra.

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Chronology

c. 1909
Education - Diploma de l'Ecole des Eaux et Forêts (ICEF), Nancy, France
1910 - 1916
Career position - Conservator of Forests, Sierra Leone
1916 - 1926
Career position - Conservator of the Forests, Western Australia
1919
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus lane-poolei Maiden, of which Lane-Poole collected the type, was named in his honour
1925
Career event - Appointed Forest Adviser to the Commonwealth Government
1926
Career position - President, Section K (Agriculture and Forestry), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1926 - 1945
Career position - Inspector-General, Commonwealth Forestry Bureau
1927 - 1944
Career position - Acting Principal, Australian Forestry School
1928
Career event - Elected Member (Botany and Forestry), Australian National Research Council
1937
Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)

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Archival resources

National Archives of Australia, National Office

  • Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1924 - 1930, CRS A1; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
  • Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1928 - 1947, CRS A431; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
  • Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1925 - 1926, CRS A458; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
  • Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1923 - 1945, CRS A518; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
  • Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1930, CRS A1606; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
  • Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1935 - 1936, AA1972/341; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
  • Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1922, CRS A571; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
  • Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1921 - 1923, CRS A6006; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
  • Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1922 - 1944, AA1975/142; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Charles Edward Lane-Poole - Records, 1905 - 1970, MS 3799; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Dargavel, John, The Zealous Conservator: a Life of Charles Lane Poole (Perth: Univesity of Western Australia Press, 2008), 252 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Carron, L.T., 'Lane-Poole, Charles Edward (1885-1970), forester' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 660-661. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090665b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Dargavel, John, 'From Exploitation to Science: Lane Poole's Forest Surveys of Papua and New Guinea, 1922-1924', Historical Records of Australian Science, 17 (1) (2006), 71-90, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05014. Details
  • Wood, M., 'Charles Lane-Poole and the Early Forest Surveys of Papua and New Guinea', Journal of Pacific History, 40 (3) (2005), 289-309. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

Reviews

  • Dargavall, John, The Zealous Conservator: a Life of Charles Lane Poole (2008)
    Bartlett, Tony, Australian Forest History Society Newsletter, 51, (2009), 14-15. Details
  • Dargavel, John, The Zealouis Conservator: a Life of Charles Lane Poole (2008)
    Bosworth, Michael, Studies in Western Australian History, 27, (2011), 208-11. Details
  • Dargavel, John, The Zealous Conservator: a Life of Charles Lane Poole (2008)
    Bosworth, Michal, Studies in Western Australian History, 27, (2011), 208-11. Details
  • Dargavall, John, The Zealous Conservator: a Life of Charles Lane Poole (2008)
    Brown, Nicholas, Historical Records of Australian Science, 20 (1), (2009), 133-135, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR09005. Details

See also

Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes

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