Person
Andrews, Cecil Rollo Payton (1870 - 1951)
- Born
- 29 August 1870
London, Middlesex, England - Died
- 14 June 1951
Sanderstead, Surrey, England - Occupation
- Botanical collector, Educator and Public servant
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.
Details
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) J.Western Australian Nat.Hist.Soc. 2 (1):42 (1904)
- 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
Related entries
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
- Mossenson, David, 'Andrews, Cecil Rollo Payton (1870-1951), director of education' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979). http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/andrews-cecil-rollo-payton-5026. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13426205. Details
- 'Andrews, Cecil Rollo Payton (18700829-19510614)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468294. 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
Rebecca Rigby and Neville Walsh
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