Person
Rodway, Leonard (1853 - 1936)
CMG
- Born
- 5 October 1853
Torquay, Devon, England - Died
- 9 March 1936
Kingston, Tasmania, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist and Dentist
Summary
Leonard Rodway was honorary government botanist of Tasmania 1896-1932. He produced a major comprehensive study of Tasmanian botany entitled "The Tasmanian flora" (Hobart, 1903) and lectured at the University of Tasmania 1923-1929.
Details
Chronology
- 1878
- Education - Licentiate, Royal College of Surgeons, London
- 1880
- Life event - Settled in Tasmania
- 1884 - 1923
- Career position - Practiced as dentist in Hobart, Tasmania
- 1884 - 1936
- Award - Fellow, Royal Society of Tasmania
- 1890 - 1922
- Career position - Honorary dental surgeon, Hobart General Hospital
- 1893
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus perriniana F.Muell. ex Rodway
- 1896 - 1932
- Career position - Honorary Government Botanist, Tasmanian Government
- 1904 - 1927
- Career position - Foundation Member, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
- 1907 - 1910
- Career position - President, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
- 1910 - 1912
- Career position - Vice-President, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
- 1911 - 1928
- Career position - Trustee, Tasmanian Museum and Botanic Gardens
- 1912
- Taxonomy event - Honoured with Eucalyptus rodwayi R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm.
- 1912 - 1922
- Career position - Member of Committee, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
- 1916 - 1932
- Career position - Member, Scenery Preservation Board, Tasmania
- 1917
- Award - Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
- 1917 - 1932
- Career position - Member, National Park Board, Tasmania
- 1918
- Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1922 - 1924
- Career position - President, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
- 1923 - 1929
- Career position - Lecturer, University of Tasmania
- 1924
- Career position - President, Section M (Botany), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1924 - 1929
- Career position - Member of Committee, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
- 1927
- Award - Royal Society of Tasmania Medal
- 1927 - 1936
- Award - Honorary Life Member, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
- 1929 - 1930
- Career position - Vice-President, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
- 1931
- Career position - Member of Committee, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
National Herbarium, Melbourne
- Leonard Rodway - Records, 1891 - 1894, MSS M17; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
Royal Society of Tasmania
- Leonard Rodway - Records, 1896 - 1907, Ms 22; Royal Society of Tasmania. Details
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
- Ellias, Ann, 'Rodway, Leonard (1853-1936), botanist and dentist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 436-437. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110443b.htm. Details
- Phillips, Gael E.; and Pearn, John H., '"Oral history" - memorials to three pioneer Australian dentists' in "Outpost medicine": Australasian studies on the history of medicine: Third National Conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, Hobart, February 1993, Atkins, Susanne, Kirkby, Kenneth, Thomson, Philip and Pearn, John, eds (Hobart: University of Tasmania and the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, 1994), pp. 87-106. Details
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'Leonard Rodway, late Tasmanian Government Botanist', Australasian herbarium news, 6 (1950), 1-5. Details
- Anon, 'Leonard Rodway, late Tasmanian Government Botanist [part 2]', Australasian herbarium news, 7 (1951), 3-8. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4396077. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/15677178. Details
- 'Rodway, Leonard (1853-1936)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-503307. Details
See also
- "Outpost medicine": Australasian studies on the history of medicine: Third National Conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, Hobart, February 1993 edited by Atkins, Susanne, Kirkby, Kenneth, Thomson, Philip and Pearn, John (Hobart: University of Tasmania and the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, 1994), 412 pp. Details
- Fagg, Murray, 'Rodway, Leonard (1853 - 1936)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/rodway-leonard.html. Details
- Fenton, Janet, A century afield: a history of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club (Hobart, Tasmania: Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club, 2004), 168 pp. Details
- 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
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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