Person
Clifford, Harold Trevor (Trevor) (1927 - 2019)
OAM FLS
- Born
- 18 April 1927
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 4 May 2019
- Occupation
- Botanist
Summary
Trevor Clifford was an Honorary Research Associate of the Queensland Herbarium and an Honorary Fellow (Geoscience) of the Queensland Museum. Throughout his career, which included a thirty-four year tenure at the University of Queensland, he received many scholarships and awards from top funding bodies including the Nuffield, Carlsberg German Cultural and University of Queensland Foundations. As part of his Master of Science Degree, Clifford mapped 180 square kilometres of the Dandenong Ranges, analysed the geographical distribution of the eucalypts, and prepared a relief model of the area. This study was the foundation for his life-long fascination with plant genetics, statistics and evolution. Clifford next received an Australian National University Scholarship to study at the University of Durham (U.K.) for a Doctor of Philosophy Degree. On completion of these studies he accepted a lectureship in Agricultural Botany at the University College of Ibadan in Nigeria. In 1958 he returned to Australia taking up a Lectureship in Botany at the University of Queensland. He retired in 1992 with the title of Prof Emeritus. His landmark publications include works on grass identification, The families of monocotyledons (1985) with Rolf Dahlgren, and Keys to the families of Queensland flowering plants (Magnoliophyta) (1972) with G. Ludlow.
Details
Chronology
- 1948
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1948 - 1953
- Career position - Botany Tutor, then Senior Tutor and part-time Lecturer, University of Melbourne.
- 1951
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1953 - 1955
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Durham University (conferred 1956)
- 1955 - 1958
- Career position - Lecturer in Agricultural Botany at University College, Ibadan in Nigeria
- 1958 - 1983
- Career position - Lecturer in Botany, University of Queensland
- 1965 - 2019
- Award - Fellow, The Linnean Society of London (FLS)
- 1974
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne
- 1982 - 1983
- Career position - President, Australian Systematic Botany Society
- 1983 - 1992
- Career position - Professor of Botany, University of Queensland
- 1990
- Career position - Visiting Professor at the Agricultural University in Beijing, China
- 1992 -
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Queensland
- 1992
- Life event - Retired
- 1994
- Career position - Visiting Professor, University Nusa Cendana in Kapang, Indonesia
- 1995 -
- Career position - Honorary Research Fellow (Geoscience), Queensland Museum
- 2015 - 2019
- Award - Life Member, Royal Society of Queensland
- 2016
- Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to botany, and to tertiary education
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- H. Trevor Clifford - Records, c. 1971 - c. 1995, MS 188; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
- Harold Trevor Clifford - Records, MS 13608; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
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
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Book Sections
- Clifford, H. Trevor, 'Herbert, Andrew Desmond (1898-1976), Professor of Botany' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), p. 438. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140504b.htm. Details
- Clifford, H. Trevor, 'White-Haney, Rose Ethel Janet (1877-1953), Botanist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 536-537. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160638b.htm. Details
Edited Books
- Clifford, Harold T. ed., Cambridge - Castlemaine: a Tribute to John Stewart Turner on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (St Lucia: Botany Department, University of Queensland, 1988), 71 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Charters, Kate, 'Royal Society of Queensland, award of Life Member: Emeritus Professor Harold Trevor Clifford OAM invested as Life Member, December 2015', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 121 (2016), 87-8. Details
- Clifford, H. Trevor, 'William Thomas Williams 1913-1995', Historical Records of Australian Science, 12 (1) (1998), 99-118. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9981210099. Details
- Clifford, H. Trevor, 'David Goodall - multiple decades devoted to the service of ecological knowledge, a whole century devoted to the enjoyment of life', Tropical ecology, 56 (1) (2015), 133-5. Details
- Clifford, H. Trevor, 'In memoriam David William Goodall (4 April 1914 - 10 May 2018)', Journal of vegetation science, 29 (3) (2018), 569-72, https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12655. Details
- Clifford, H.T., 'Seed dispersal by motor vehicles. 47, 311-315.', Journal of Ecology, 47 (1959), 311-315. Details
- Clifford, H.T.; and Williams, W.T., 'Classificatory dendrograms and their interpretation.', Australian Journal of Botany, 21 (1973), 151-162.. Details
- Specht, Alison; Conran, John; Dettmann, Mary; and Rozefelds, Andrew, 'Obituary for H. T. Clifford, 1927 - 2019: a multiversed generalist in plant sciences', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 124 (2020), 167-70. Details
- Watson, L.; and Clifford, H.T., 'Major groups of Australasian grasses - guide to sampling.', Australian journal of Botany, 24 (1976), 489-507. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5892430. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/56670060. Details
- McCarthy, Ann, and Jones, Michael, Harold Trevor Clifford Guide To Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2008, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/clif/clif.htm. Details
- 'Clifford, H T (1927-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-459152. Details
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Created: 23 November 2005, Last modified: 15 June 2022