Person
Weston, Thomas Charles George (1866 - 1935)
- Born
- 14 October 1866
Poyle, Middlesex, England - Died
- 1 December 1935
Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Forest scientist and Horticulturist
Summary
Thomas Weston was officer-in-charge of afforestation for Canberra from 1913 until his retirement in 1926. He carried out extensive scientifically-planned breeding trials to increase the number of species that might grow in Canberra. A suburb and a park in Canberra are named after him. Prior to migrating to Australia in 1869, Weston studied horticulture at a number of places in the UK, including working as a gardener at Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
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Chronology
- 1896
- Life event - Migrated to Australia (New South Wales)
- 1898 - 1908
- Career position - Gardener-in-charge of Admiralty House
- 1908 - 1912
- Career position - Head Gardener at Federal Government House in Sydney
- 1912 - 1913
- Career position - Superintendent of the State Nursery in Campbelltown, New South Wales
- 1913 - 1926
- Career position - Officer-in-charge of afforestation in Canberra
- 1926 - 1927
- Career position - Consultant to Canberra
- 1928
- Taxonomy event - Honoured with the naming of Eucalyptus westonii Maiden & Blakely. Weston collected the type material
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Book Sections
- Murphy, Greg, 'Weston, Thomas Charles George (1866-1935), horticulturist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 449-450. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120502b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7795012. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/91972660. Details
- 'Weston, T C G (1866-1935)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-494796. Details
See also
- Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 11 January 2022