Person

Gulliver, Susannah (1857 - 1938)

Born
15 October 1857
Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Died
2 February 1938
Townsville, Queenland, Australia
Occupation
Botanical collector and Florist

Summary

Susannah Gulliver was the sister of Thomas and Benjamin Gulliver, who were natural history collectors in Tasmania and Queensland. Susannah lived in Hobart in the early 1870s and is known to have joined her brothers in collecting plant specimens, particularly around Mt Wellington. She move to Townsville, Queensland, probably with Benjamin in 1882. Here she joined him in his nursery business, Acacia Vale, concentrating on floristry. The Gullivers had a long connection with Ferdinand von Mueller, Victorian Government Botanist, with the result that the National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 1,000 of their collections of plants, including bryophytes and lichens.

Details

Chronology

c. 1870
Life event - Moved to Tasmania
1882?
Life event - Moved to Townsville and joined brother Benjamin in the nursery business Acacia Vale

Related Corporate Bodies

Related People

Published resources

Journal Articles

Helen Cohn

EOAS ID: biogs/P007461b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007461b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260