Person

Hannaford, Samuel G. (1828 - 1874)

Born
1828
Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom
Died
3 January 1874
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation
Bank employee, Botanical collector and Editor

Summary

Samuel Hannaford migrated to Victoria in 1853 and worked as a bank teller in country towns between 1855 and 1863. He made the acquaintance of the Victorian Government Botanist, Ferdinand Mueller, and collected plant specimens for him in the areas where he lived. In 1863 Hannaford moved to Tasmania where he was for six years Librarian at the Hobart Public Library. He continued collecting plants, including algae (in company with John Fereday) which were sent to British phycologist William Harvey. Hannaford wrote a number of popular works on the natural history of Victoria and Tasmania intended for the benefit of settlers. He was in addition editor of the Victorian agricultural and horticultural gazette and newspapers the Launceston times and the Tasmanian times. The plant genus Hannafordia (Malvaceae) was named in his honour. Over 750 of his specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.

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Chronology

1853
Life event - Arrived in Victoria
1855 - 1856
Career position - Bank teller in Warrnambool, Victoria
1856 - 1863
Career position - Bank teller in Geelong, Victoria
1857 - 1861
Career position - Editor, Victorian agricultural and horticultural gazette
1863
Life event - Moved to Tasmania
1863 - 1868
Career position - Editor, Launceston times
1868 - 1874
Career position - Librarian, Hobart Public Library

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Books

  • Hannaford, S., Jottings in Australia : or, notes on the flora and fauna of Victoria : with a catalogue of the more common plants, their habitats and dates of flowering (Melbourne: J. Blundell and Co., 1856), 100 pp. Details
  • Hannaford, S., The wild flowers of Tasmania, or, chatty rambles afloat and ashore : amidst the seaweeds, ferns, and flowering plants : with a complete list of indigenous ferns, and instructions for their cultivation (Melbourne: F. F. Bailliere, 1866), 188 pp. Details
  • Hannaford, Samuel, Sea and river-side rambles in Victoria: being a handbook for those seeing recreation during the summer months (Geelong, Vic.: Heath & Cordell, 1860), 119 pp. Details
  • Hannaford, Samuel; with an introduction by Sophie C. Ducker, Sea and River-side Rambles in Victoria (Warrnambool: Warrnambool Institute Press, 1981), 119 pp. Details

See also

Helen Cohn

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