Biographical entry Serventy, Vincent Noel (1916 - 2007)

Summary

Vincent Serventy graduated from the University of Western Australia in both science and education. He later moved away from teaching into writing, lecturing and film making, and edited several naturalist magazines. Throughout his career he collaborated closely with his wife Carol Nee Darbyshire who edited much of his work and with whom he co-authored multiple books.

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Events

- 1941

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), The University of Western Australia

- 1941

Education - Bachelor of Education (BEd), The University of Western Australia

1946 - 1947

Head - President, Western Australian Naturalists Club

1946 - 2007

Career position - Life Member, The Wildlife Preservation Society, Australia

1951

Head - President, Western Australian Naturalists Club

1955 - 1958

Career position - Science and Maths Lecturer, Claremont Teachers College, Western Australia

1958 - 1964

Career position - State Education Department, Western Australia

1965

Career event - Published The Australian Nature Trail

1966 - 1982

Career position - Editor, Wildlife Australia

1968

Career event - Published Australian Wild Life Conservation

1970

Life event - Moved to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

1970

Career event - Published Australia: A Continent In Danger

1973

Head - President, The Wildlife Preservation Society, Australia

1974

Award - Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, Australia

1976

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM), for services to conservation and natural history, Commonwealth Government of Australia

1980

Award - Ritter Award, The Netherlands Government

1998

Award - Honorary Doctorate, Macquarie University, Australia

Related entries

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Vincent Noel Serventy - Records, 1926 - 1972, MS 4655; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Vincent Noel Serventy - Records, 1972, DeB 582; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

• Serventy, Vincent, The Australian Nature Trail, Georgian House, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1965. Details
• Serventy, Vincent, Australian Wildlife Conservation, Owner, Faye (Illustrator), Angus & Robertson, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1968. Details
• Serventy, Vincent, Australia: A Continent in Danger, Ure Smith, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, c.1966. Details
• Serventy, Vincent and Serventy, Carol, Australian Wildlife, Rigby, Adelaide, South Australia, 1981. Details

Journal Articles

• Anon, 'Vincent Noel Serventy 6 January 1916 - 8 September 2007', Western Australian Naturalist, vol. 26, no. 3, 2008, pp. 151-6. Details
• Charlton, Lorna, 'Vincent Serventy: the Story of an Australian Icon', Landscope, vol. 24, no. 4, 2009, pp. 9-14. Details
• Serventy, V., 'Conservation of Wildlife and the Environment', BHP Journal, vol. 1, no. 80, 1980, pp. 24-33. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Stephens, Tony, 'Obituary - Green before movement became fashionable', The Age, 18 September 2007. Details

Online Resources

• 'Serventy, Vincent Noel (1916-2007)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1471339. Details

See also

• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, 492 pp. Details