Person

Wedgwood, Camilla Hildegarde (1901 - 1955)

Born
25 March 1901
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Died
17 May 1955
St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Anthropologist

Summary

Camilla Wedgwood was Anthropologist and Lecturer in Native Education at the Australian School of Pacific Administration, Sydney.

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Camilla Hildergarde Wedgwood - Records, 1932 - 1954, MS 483; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

University of Sydney, Archives

  • Camilla Hildergarde Wedgwood - Records, 1925 - 1955, P 112; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Book Sections

  • Maddock, Kenneth, 'Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood, 1901-1955' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Wetherell, David, 'Wedgwood, Camilla Hildegarde (1901-1955), Anthropologist and Educationist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 515-517. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160613b.htm. Details

Resources

McCarthy, G.J.

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