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Biographical entry Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880 - 1963)

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Born
1 December 1880
Walthamstow, Essex, England
Died
5 November 1963
Manly, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Geographer and Meteorologist

Summary

Thomas Griffith Taylor was senior geologist to the British Antarctic expedition 1910-13 under R.F. Scott. He was Associate Professor of Geography, University of Sydney 1920-28, and then professor at the Universities of Chicago 1928-35 and Toronto 1935-51. In 1913 he and E.T. Quayle wrote the first text-book on Australian meteorology Climate and Weather of Australia.

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Events

1913
Career position - Climate and Weather of Australia co-authored with E.T. Quayle
1954 -
Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Thomas Griffith Taylor - Records, 1960, MS 41; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Thomas Griffith Taylor - Records, 1903 - 1933, Uncatalogued MSS set 460; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Thomas Griffith Taylor - Records, 1880 - 1963, MS 1003; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

University of Sydney, Archives

  • Thomas Griffith Taylor - Records, 1899 - 1916, Acc 979; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Sanderson, Marie, Griffith Taylor: Antarctic Scientist and Pioneer Geographer, Carleton University Press, Ottawa, 1988, 229 pp. Details
  • Taylor, T. G., Journeyman Taylor. The Education of a Scientist, Hale, London, 1958. Details
  • Taylor, T. Griffith, Douglas Mawson, Great Australians, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1962. Details

Book Sections

  • Powell, J. M., 'Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880-1963), Geographer', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 185-188. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120206b.htm. Details
  • Powell, J.M., 'Thomas Griffith Taylor, 1880-1963', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. Details

Conference Papers

  • Oldroyd, D. R., 'Griffith Taylor and his Views on Race, Environment and Settlement and the Peopling of Australia', in D. F. Branagan and G. H. McNally (eds), Useful and Curious Geological Enquiries Beyond the World: Pacific-Asia Historical Themes: The 19th International INHIGEO Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 4-8 July, 1994, International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences, Sydney, 1994, pp. 251-274. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'Griffith Taylor 1880-1963', Australian Geographical Studies, vol. II, no. 1, April 1964, pp. 1-9. Details
  • Bourke, Helen, 'Intellectuals for Export: Australia in the 1920's', Australian Cultural History, vol. 3, 1984, pp. 59-93. Details
  • Hanley, W. S., 'Griffith Taylor's Antarctic Achievements: a Geographical Foundation', Australian Geographical Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1980, pp. 22-36. Details
  • Powell, J. M., 'The Bowman, Huntington and Taylor Correspondence, 1928', Australian Geographer, vol. 14, 1978, pp. 123-125. Details
  • Powell, J. M., 'Thomas Griffith Taylor, 1888-1963', Geographers: Bibliographical Studies, vol. 3, 1979, pp. 141-153. Details
  • Powell, J. M., 'The Cyclist on the Ice: Griffith Taylor as Explorer', Royal Geographical Society of Australia (SA Branch), Proceedings, 1979, pp. 1-28. Details
  • Powell, J. M., 'Griffith Taylor and 'Australia Unlimited'', Habitat, vol. 8, 1980, pp. 6-8. Details
  • Powell, J. M., 'National Identity and the Gifted Immigrant: a Note on T. Griffith Taylor, 1880-1963', Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 2, 1981, pp. 43-54. Details
  • Powell, J. M., '1928: Griffith Taylor Emigrates from Australia', Geography Bulletin, vol. 10, 1987, pp. 5-13. Details

Online Resources

See also

McCarthy, G.J.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 7 August 2006