Person

Roughley, Theodore Cleveland (1888 - 1961)

Born
30 September 1888
Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
Died
14 January 1961
The Entrance, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Marine zoologist

Summary

Theodore Roughley was an economic zoologist whose expertise was in the fisheries of eastern Australia, particularly New South Wales. He was particularly interested in oysters (he discovered sex-change in the eastern Australian oyster), but also studied Australian salmon and prawns. Roughley was also was an outstanding photographer and microscopist, and skilled artist. After joining the Technological Museum, Sydney, as Economic Zoologist, in 1911, he left the Museum in 1939 to join the New South Wales State Fisheries Branch, retiring in 1952 as Superintendent of Fisheries. Roughley's interests were not confined to fisheries: he sought to establish Lawrence Hargrave as a pioneer of aviation in Australia. He was active in local scientific organisations, serving as President of both the Linnean and Royal Zoological Societies of New South Wales.

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Chronology

1911 - March 1939
Career position - Economic Zoologist, Technological Museum, Sydney
1925 - 1961
Career position - Member, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1926 - 1927
Career position - President, Microscopical Society of New South Wales
1928
Career event - Elected Associate Member (Zoology), Australian National Research Council
1931 - 1956
Career position - Member of Council, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1931 - 1961
Award - Fellow, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1933
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
1934 - 1936
Career position - President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1937
Career position - President, Great Barrier Reef Game Fishing and Angling Club
1938 - 1939
Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales
March 1939 - 1943
Career position - Research Officer, State Fisheries Branch, New South Wales Chief Secretary's Department
1943 - 1947
Career position - Deputy Controller of Fisheries, State Fisheries Branch, New South Wales Chief Secretary's Department
1947 - 1952
Career position - Superintendent of Fisheries, State Fisheries Branch, New South Wales Chief Secretary's Department
1952
Career event - Retired

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Archival resources

Powerhouse Museum

  • Thomas Cleveland Roughley - Records, 1904 - 1939, MA 152, MRS 225; Powerhouse Museum. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Roughley, T. C., Fishes of Australia and their technology (Sydney: Government Printer, 1916), 296 pp. Details
  • Roughley, T. C., The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1937), 282 pp. Details
  • Roughley, T. C., Fish and fisheries of Australia (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1951), 344 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Murray, Maree; Roach, John, 'Roughley, Theodore Cleveland (1888-1961), Zoologist and Author' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 133-134. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160161b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Roughley, T. C., 'Lawrence Hargrave - Australia's pioneer in aviation', Technological gazette of New South Wales, 13 (2) (1923), 87-101. Details
  • Roughley, T. C., 'Lawrence Hargrave - Australia's pioneer in aviation, part II', Technological gazette of New South Wales, 14 (1) (1924), 35-47. Details
  • Roughley, T. C., 'The story of the oyster, its history, growth, cultivation and pests in New South Wales', Australian Museum magazine, 3 (9) (1929), 1-32. Details
  • Roughley, T. C., 'The life history of the Australian oyster (Ostrea commercialis)', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 58 (1933), 279-332. Details
  • Roughley, T. C., 'Presidential address: the fisheries of Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1934/5 (1935), 9-20. Details
  • Roughley, T. C.; and Welch, M. B., 'Wood borers damaging Australian timber', Technological Museum bulletin, 8 (1923), 1-28. Details
  • W., G. P. [ie Whitley, Gilbert Percy], 'Theodore Cleveland Roughley, 1888-1961 (Memorial series, no. 19)', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 86 (1962), 295-298. Details

Resources

See also

  • Prince, J. H., The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 (Sydney: Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales, 1979), 81 pp. Details

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