Record ID:
35331689 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • Torquay, Devon, England
Death:
  • Kingston, Tasmania
Lived/located in:
  • Tasmania
Occupations:
  • Dentist Botanist
Notes:
  • The Tasmanian flora, 1903: title page (by Leonard Rodway, Government Botanist of Tasmania)
  • Australian dictionary of biography, viewed 21 September 2018: ("Leonard Rodway (1853-1936), botanist and dentist, was born on 5 October 1853 at Torquay, Devon, England... he gained the licentiateship in dental surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1878 and migrated to Queensland. In Brisbane on 19 May 1879 ... he married Louisa Susan Phillips, a dentist's daughter. They settled in Hobart Town next year. Rodway was registered under the first Tasmanian Dental Act 1884, and practised in Hobart until 1923, acting as honorary dental surgeon at the Hobart General Hospital in 1890-1922. He is, however, chiefly remembered for his interest in botany... He devoted his spare time, energy and financial resources to preparing an exhaustive catalogue of Tasmania's native and naturalized plants: he made many field trips, described many new species and built up a comprehensive collection of specimens. Between 1892 and 1928 he presented scientific papers, principally to the Royal Society of Tasmania to which he was elected in 1884, and published The Tasmanian Flora (Hobart, 1903), a standard reference for forty years, Some Wild Flowers of Tasmania (Hobart, 1910) and Tasmanian Bryophyta (Hobart, 1914-16). n 1896-1932 Rodway was honorary government botanist ... He retired from public life in 1932 and died on 9 March 1936 at Kingston.") http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rodway-leonard-8252
Local system number:
  • 000000333398
  • abv04225654
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda TSL
Authentication code:
  • kin anuc