Person
Paradice, William Edward John (1897 - 1927)
- Born
- 21 February 1897
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 3 November 1927
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Marine zoologist, Physician and Entomologist
Summary
William Paradice graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney in 1920. The following year he joined the Royal Australian Navy as a Surgeon Lieutenant. His main sea posting was to H.M.A.S. Geranium from 1923 during her cruise through Queensland and Northern Territory waters. In 1926 he was promoted Surgeon Lt Commander, posted to Garden Island in Sydney Harbour. Paradice made the most of his free time to study marine zoology, particularly fish and echinoderms. He had a fruitful association with the Australian Museum, frequently donating insects and other specimens including those collected during his posting to Geranium. In 1926 he made a hydrographic survey of the Gunnamatta mudflats at Port Hacking with the museum's entomologist, Anthony Musgrave. Paradice was a member of several local scientific societies, serving on the council of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and as President of the Microscopical Society of New South Wales. Among his publications were papers on corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Northern Territory fishes, and a description of an new genus of sea snake.
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Chronology
- July 1918
- Career event - Joined the Australian Imperial Force
- 1920
- Education - MB ChM, University of Sydney
- 1921 - 1926
- Career position - Surgeon Lieutenant, Royal Australian Navy
- 1926 - 1927
- Career position - Surgeon Lt Commander, Royal Australian Navy
Related entries
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
- Whitley, G. P., 'The late W. E. J. Paradice and the Australian Museum', Australian Museum magazine, 3 (5) (1928), 169-70. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55626672. Details
- 'Paradice, William Edward John (18970221-19271103)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477185. Details
Resource Sections
- Broadhead, John, 'Lieutenant Commander (Surgeon) William Edward John Paradice'. https://www.navy.gov.au/biography/lieutenant-commander-surgeon-william-edward-john-paradice. Details
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
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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