Person

Carter, Charles Ernest (1885 - 1976)

Born
1885
South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
1976
canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation
Forester, Science educator and Botanist

Summary

Charles Carter was a teacher in several Victorian high schools before becoming Principal of the Victorian School of Forestry in 1916. In his ten years at the School he proved an inspiring teacher, while at the same time earning a masters degree in forestry from Yale University. For 20 years he was senior Lecturer at the Australian School of Forestry and, after retiring, taught botany at the Australian Capital Territory Technical College. Carter was keenly interested in the education of young people. Many of his students found careers in the Victorian and Commonwealth public service. While he published little, he was influential in the early researches of Herbert Dadswell on the properties and structure of Australian woods. Carter briefly served on the committee of the Ballarat Science and Field Naturalists Club.

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Chronology

1908
Education - Qualified as a teacher, Melbourne Teachers College
1915
Career position - Member of Committee, Ballarat Science and Field Naturalists Club
1915
Career position - Teacher, Ballarat High School
1916
Career position - Teacher, Coburg High School
1916 - 1926
Career position - Principal, Victorian School of Forestry
1920
Education - BAgSc (hons), University of Melbourne
1922
Education - Masters degree in forestry, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut, U.S.A.
1926 - 1956
Career position - Senior Lecturer, Australian School of Forestry
1956
Life event - Retired

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Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Charles Ernest Carter - Records, 1912 - 1972, MS 5349; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Youl, Rob; Fry, Brian and Hateley, Ron, Circumspice: One Hunded Years of Forestry Education centred on Creswick, Victoria (South Melbourne: Forest Education Centenary Committee, 2010), 278 pp. Details

Journal Articles

Resources

See also

  • Kruss, Susan, 'A voice for nature: a history of the Field Naturalists' Club of Ballarat', PhD thesis, Federation University Australia, 2024, 594 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J. and Helen Cohn

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