Person

Pescott, Edward Edgar (1872 - 1954)

Born
11 December 1872
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Died
31 July 1954
Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Naturalist and Horticulturist

Summary

Edward Pescott, Principal Governor, School of Horticulture, Burnley, Victoria 1909-1916, and Government Pomologist, Victorian Department of Agriculture 1917-1937 was an authority on native orchids and made weekly radio broadcasts on native flora from the early 1920s.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Edward Edgar Pescott - Records, 1910 - 1943; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Pescott, E. E., The orchids of Victoria (Mebourne: Horticultural Press, 1928), 92 pp. Details
  • Pescott, Edward Edgar, James Bonwick: a writer of school books and histories, with a bibliography of his writings (Melbourne: H. A. Evans, 1939), 43 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • McLaren, Ian F., 'Pescott, Edward Edgar (1872-1954), Horticulturist, Naturalist and Author' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 206-208. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110213b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Hyam, G. N., 'The late Edward Edgar Pescott, F.L.S.', The Victorian naturalist, 71 (1955), 166-8. Details
  • P., E. E. [ie Pescott, E. E.], 'Francis G. A. Barnard, J. P.', The Victorian naturalist, 49 (7) (1932), 69-73. Details
  • Pescott, E. E., 'Rosa Fiveash: flower painter', The Victorian naturalist, 54 (1) (1938), 199. Details
  • Pescott, E. E., 'The Pioneers of Horticulture in Victoria', Victorian Historical Magazine, 18 (1940). Details
  • Pescott, E. E., 'Sixty years of work: the history of the Field Naturalists' Club, year by year', The Victorian naturalist, 57 (1940), 4-30. Details
  • Pescott, E. E., 'The late Charles C. Brittlebank', Victorian naturalist, 62 (1946), 189-91. Details
  • Pescott, E. E., 'The late Charles Hamilton French', Victorian naturalist, 67 (7) (1950), 146-8. Details
  • Pescott, E. E., 'The writings of Daniel Bunce, 1838 - 1872', Victorian historical magazine, 23 (1950), 115-25. Details
  • Pescott, E.E., 'Charles French', The Victorian naturalist, 50 (7) (1933), 57-60. Details
  • Pescott, Edward E., 'Australian orchidology', The Victorian naturalist, 49 (1932), 196-9. Details

Resources

See also

  • Willis, J. H., 'Botanical pioneers in Victoria - II', Victorian Naturalist, 66 (6) (1949), 103-9. Details
  • Willis, J. H., Botanical Pioneers in Victoria, vol. 66 ([Melbourne]: [Brown Prior Anderson], 1949), 19 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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