Person
Cleland, Elizabeth Robson (1910 - 2005)
- Born
- 1910
Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 31 January 2005
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Author and Zoologist
- Alternative Names
- Simpson, Elizabeth Robson (married name)
Summary
Elizabeth Cleland was a zoologist who specialised in nematodes. Having graduated with a BSc from the University of Adelaide in 1933, she became a research assistant and demonstrator in the Department of Zoology at the University. Working with the Professor of Zoology, T. Harvey Johnston, she published several papers on Australian flatworms (trematodes), and completed her MSc on the anatomy of roundworms (nematodes). In 1938 Cleland married Alfred Simpson and left the University. The couple travelled extensively in Australia, particularly in outback regions, and overseas from the Antarctic to the Arctic. While travelling Elizabeth sketched and made observations in anthropology, local history and natural science. She was the daughter of pathologist John B. Cleland, and published several books on the Cleland family and Beaumont House.
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Chronology
- 1929
- Award - John Bagot Scholarship and Medal, University of Adelaide
- 1933
- Education - BSc (hons) (zoology), University of Adelaide
- 1933 - 1937
- Career position - Research Assistant and demonstrator, Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide
- 1935
- Education - MSc, University of Adelaide
- 1986
- Publication - The Clelands of Beaumont: a history of 26 generations of a South Australian family
- 1993
- Publication - Beaumont House: the land and its people
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Published resources
Books
- Simpson, E. R., The Clelands of Beaumont: a history of 26 generations of a South Australian family ([Adelaide]: Beaumont Press, 1986), 166 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Johnston, T. H. and Cleland, E. R., 'Larval trematodes from Australian terrestrial and freshwater molluscs, part 1-2', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 61 (1937), 191-206. Details
- Johnston, T. H. and Cleland, E. R., 'Larval trematodes from Australian terrestrial and freshwater molluscs, part 3: Leucochloridium australiense n.sp.', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 62 (1938), 25-33. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Anon, 'Demonstrator in zoology', News (Adelaide) (1036), 15. Details
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Created: 31 March 2026, Last modified: 7 April 2026