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Andrews, Cecil Rollo Payton (1870 - 1951)

Born
29 August 1870
London, Middlesex, England
Died
14 June 1951
Sanderstead, Surrey, England
Occupation
Botanical collector, Educator, Public servant and University Administrator

Summary

Dr Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews served as Director of Education, West Australian Department of Education from 1903 to 1929, and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia from 1912 to 1929. He is remembered for his commitment to the modernisation of rural schooling.

He was also a collector of botanical specimens. Though his main interest was in the Acacia, he collected other genera including Eriostemon and Pultenaea, and collected and described Eucalyptus diptera. Many of his collections are now in the Western Australian Herbarium.

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Chronology

1896 - 1900
Career position - Resident Tutor, Battersea Training College, England
1901
Life event - Moved to Perth, Western Australia, to be first principal of the new teachers' training college at Claremont
1901 - 1903
Career position - Founding Principal of the (Teachers) Training College, Claremont, Western Australia
1903 - 1929
Career position - Director of Education, West Australian Department of Education
1904
Taxonomy event - Collected and described Eucalyptus diptera C.R.P. Andrews (Two-winged Gimlet)
1904 - 1905
Career position - President, Western Australian Natural History Society (1904 - 1905)
1912 - 1929
Career position - Pro-Chancellor, University of Western Australia
1924
Career event - Elected Associate Member (Mental Science and Education), Australian National Research Council
1927
Career event - Elected Member (Mental Health and Education), Australian National Research Council
1929
Life event - Retired, and returned to England

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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

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