Person

Medland, Lilian Marguerite (1880 - 1955)

Born
29 May 1880
North Finchley, England
Died
16 December 1955
Queenscliffe, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Ornithological artist and Ornithologist

Summary

Lilian Medland trained and worked for many years as a nurse in England. Charles Stonham, a surgeon at Guy's Hospital where she did her training, published The Birds of the British Isles between 1906 and 1911, with her as illustrator. She later married Tom Iredale (q.v.) and did the illustrations for a number of his books.

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Nurse 1896-1923(?); produced 318 monochrome plates to illustrate Charles Stonham's five volumes of The Birds of the British Islands 1906-11; invited to illustrate a revised edition of William Yarrell's A History of British Birds 1911 (book never completed, but she did 248 paintings for it); painted 30 species of birds for the Australian Museum, which were issued as postcards in 1925; completed 53 plates depicting 883 Australian birds for Mathews (q.v.) 1930s; plates for Iredale's Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds (Melbourne, 1950), Birds of New Guinea (Melbourne, 1956) and his proposed book on Australian kingfishers. Her painting of the Providence Petrel Pterodroma solandri was used on a 1961 Norfolk Island stamp. Married Tom Iredale (q.v.) 8 June 1923.

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

  • Mattingley, Christobel, Seen but Not Heard: Lilian Medland's Birds (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2014), 207 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Kloot, Tess, 'Iredale, Tom (1880-1972), conchologist and ornithologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 435-436, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090431b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Kloot, T., 'Lilian Medland: 1880-1955', Emu, 76 (4) (1976), 183-186. Details

Resources

Reviews

  • Mattingley, Christobel, Seen but Not Heard: Lilian Medland's Birds (2014)
    Herman, Kerryn, Australian field ornithology, 33, (2016), 82. Details

See also

  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

Rosanne Walker

Created: 22 March 2001, Last modified: 5 April 2022

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