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Pescott, Richard Thomas Martin (Dick) (1905 - 1986)

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Born
21 August 1905
Malvern, Victoria, Australia
Died
22 February 1986
Occupation
Botanic gardens director, Entomologist, Horticulturist and Agricultural scientist

Summary

Dick Pescott was the seventh Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne 1957-1970. Previously he had worked in the Science Section of the Victorian Department of Agriculture and was Director of the National Museum of Victoria 1944-1957. Pescott was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne and at the University of Melbourne (MAgrSc).

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Chronology

1928
Career position - Joined Department of Agriculture
1935 - 1936
Career position - President, Entomological Society of Victoria
1935 - 1944
Career position - Government Entomologist, Department of Agriculture (March - March)
1943 - 1944
Military service - Commander, Captain, Australian Mobile Entomological Section, 2nd Australian Imperial Force
1944 - 1957
Career position - Director, National Museum of Victoria
1945 - 1946
Career position - President, Melbourne University Agricultural Society
1947
Career position - Member of the Grimwade Expedition to Western Australia
1957 - 1970
Career position - Director and Government Botanist, Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne
1963 - 1964
Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria
1970
Life event - Retired

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Books

  • Pescott, R. T. M., Collections of a century: the history of the first hundred years of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne (Melbourne: National Museum of Victoria, 1954), 186 pp. Details
  • Pescott, R. T. M., Bulbs for Australian gardens (Melbourne: Nelson (Australia), 1968), 172 pp. Details
  • Pescott, R. T. M., W. R. Guilfoyle 1840-1912: the master of landscaping (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1974), 153 pp. Details
  • Pescott, R. T. M., The memoirs of a "naturalist": a story of the goings and comings of one Richard Thomas Martin Pescott in Australia and elsewhere, by himself [unpublished.] ([Melbourne]: 1984), unpaged pp. Details
  • Pescott, Richard Thomas Martin, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a history from 1845 to 1970 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982), 212 pp. Details

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  • Pescott, R. T. M., 'French, Charles (1842-1933) and Charles Hamilton (1868-1950)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 585-586. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080602b.htm. Details
  • Pescott, R. T. M., 'Kershaw, James Andrew (1866-1946), scientist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 578-579. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090579b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Pescott, R. T. M., 'The Royal Society of Victoria From Then, 1854 to Now, 1959', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 73 (1961), 1-40. Details
  • Pescott, R. T. M., 'Retirement of Mr A. N. Burns', The Victorian naturalist, 81 (1964), 167-8. Details

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