Person
Camfield, Julius Henry (1852 - 1916)
- Born
- 30 March 1852
Islington, England - Died
- 26 November 1916
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Horticulturist and Plant collector
Summary
Julius Camfield was overseer 1882-1912 of the Garden Palace Grounds, which had been established within the Botanic Gardens for the 1879 Sydney International Exhibition. He also helped to collect for J.H. Maiden's National Herbarium of New South Wales and compiled his own small herbarium which he presented to the Botanic Gardens in 1912.
Details
Born Islington, London, England, 30 March 1852. Died Sydney, 26 November 1916. Apprenticed as a gardener. Head gardener on several estates near London; arrived Sydney 1882; overseer, Garden Palace Grounds 1882-1912; overseer, inner Domain, an amalgamation of the Garden Palace Grounds with part of Government House gardens 1912-16.
Chronology
- 1882 - 1912
- Overseer of the Inner Domain, Sydney Botanic Gardens
- 1920
- J.H. Maiden honoured him with the naming of Eucalyptus camfieldii Maiden
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Book Sections
- Lyons, Mark; Pettigrew, C. J., 'Camfield, Julius Henry (1852-1916), gardener and horticulturist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 539-540, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/camfield-julius-henry-5479. Details
Journal Articles
- Froggatt, Walter W., 'The Curators and Botanists of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney.', Royal Australian Historical Society, xviii (III) (1932), 101-133. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21506890. Details
- 'Camfield, Julius Henry (1852-1916)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469965. Details
See also
- Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 11 January 2022
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