Person
Lowrie, William (1857 - 1933)
- Born
- 18 October 1857
Selkirkshire, Scotland - Died
- 20 July 1933
Echunga, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Agricultural educator
Summary
William Lowrie was Professor of Agriculture and Principal of Roseworthy Agricultural College, South Australia from 1888. After a period of teaching in New Zealand he was Director of Agriculture in Western Australia from 1908 and of South Australia from 1912.
Archival resources
State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
- William Lowrie - Records, 1880 - 1933, PRG 30/5/17; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Black, Alan W., 'Lowrie, William (1857-1933), agricultural educationist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 160-161. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lowrie-william-7253. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8014741. Details
- 'Lowrie, William (1857-1933)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1463825. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_l.html. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 21 August 2019
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