Biographical entry Camfield, Julius Henry (1852 - 1916)

Summary

Julius Henry Camfield was overseer 1882-1912 of the Garden Palace Grounds, which had been established within the Botanic Gardens for the 1879 Sydney International Exhibition. He also helped to collect for J.H. Maiden's National Herbarium of New South Wales and compiled his own small herbarium which he presented to the Botanic Gardens in 1912.

Details

Born Islington, London, England, 30 March 1852. Died Sydney, 26 November 1916. Apprenticed as a gardener. Head gardener on several estates near London; arrived Sydney 1882; overseer, Garden Palace Grounds 1882-1912; overseer, inner Domain, an amalgamation of the Garden Palace Grounds with part of Government House gardens 1912-16.

Published resources

Book Sections

• Lyons, Mark; Pettigrew, C. J., 'Camfield, Julius Henry (1852-1916), gardener and horticulturist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 539-540. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070542b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Froggatt, Walter W., 'The Curators and Botanists of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney.', Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. xviii, III, 1932, pp. 101-133. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Camfield, Julius Henry', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469965. Details