Person

Macarthur, William (1800 - 1882)

Born
December 1800
Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Died
29 October 1882
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Horticulturist and Sheepbreeder

Summary

William Macarthur was a horticulturist and agriculturalist with a keen interest in botany. He studied in England from 1809 to 1817, then returned to Australia where he worked for thirty years worked at improving the family property, at the end of which he had won awards for his wines and brandies. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1849 to 1855, and then was appointed Commissioner for the forthcoming Paris Exhibition. He joined the committee of the Australian Museum in 1836 and was a Trustee from 1853. He was the first vice-president of the Acclimatisation Society of New South Wales 1860-.

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Chronology

1849 - 1855
Career position - Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
1853 - ?
Career position - Trustee, Australian Museum
1855 - 1856
Career position - Commissioner for the Paris Exhibition
1856
Award - Received Knighthood from Queen Victoria
1856?
Award - Decorated with the Legion of Honour by the French Emperor
1860
Career position - Vice-President, Acclimatisation Society of New South Wales
1860 - 1880
Career position - Member of the Senate, University of Sydney
1864 - 1882
Career position - Member of the Legislative Council, New South Wales
1874 - 1878
Career position - Member of Council, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1879
Career position - President, Agricultural Society of New South Wales
1899
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus macarthurii Deane & Maiden was named in his honour. Macarthur had collected syntype material for the Paris Exhibition

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

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

  • William Macarthur - Records, 1817 - 1884, A2933-53; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Book Sections

  • Atkinson, Alan, 'Sir William Macarthur, 1800-1882' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Teale, Ruth, 'Macarthur, Sir William (1800 - 1882), landowner' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Nairn, Bede, Serle, Geoffrey and Ward, Russell, eds, vol. 5 (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 124-5. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/macarthur-sir-william-4061. Details

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See also

  • Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
  • Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Australian botanists:- (a) general; (b) New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, 42 (1908), 60-132. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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