Person
Morgan, William Longworth (1904 - 1968)
- Born
- 22 April 1904
Moorlands, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 8 May 1968
New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Entomologist
Summary
William Morgan completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science at Sydney University (1927) and then went on to work as an entomologist for the New South Wales Department of Agriculture. He soon became a recognised authority on those insects which attacked local vegetables and crops (e.g. cabbage moth, pumpkin beetle, tomato mite, etc.). By studying the lifecycle of the bean fly, Morgan was able to come up with a nicotine-sulphate white oil solution to effectively treat infestations. During World War II, the Commonwealth Government put Morgan in charge of the contract vegetable production industry to ensure a constant supply during the war years. In 1947 Morgan resigned from his government post and established Ace Farm Supplies Pty. Ltd. in Sydney - a supplier of seeds, equipment, tools and pest control chemicals. In 1995 he set up Root Nodule Pty. Ltd, one of Australia's first commercial producers of legume inoculants.
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Chronology
- c. 1927
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
- 1937 - 1938
- Career position - Bean fly treatment regime discovered
- 1947
- Career position - Resigned from the Department of Agriculture and established Ace Farm Supplies Pty. Ltd.
- 1955
- Career position - Formed the Root Nodule Pty. Ltd. company
Published resources
Books
- Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932), 380 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Obituary. William Longworth Morgan, (1904-1968) [including a list of his publications]', Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia (New South Wales Branch), 5 (1968), 60-61. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55068661. Details
- 'Morgan, William Longworth (1904-1968)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476097. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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