Biographical entry Sutton, John (1866 - 1938)

Summary

John Sutton served as Assistant Honorary Ornithologist, South Australian Museum 1923-34 and Honorary Curator in Ornithology 1934-38, spending every afternoon at the Museum and registering, cataloguing and storing about 15,000 specimens.

Details

Born Castlemaine, Victoria, 25 March 1866. Died 22 November 1938. Banker by profession; sometime Acting Manager, National Bank, Adelaide; Inspector, Melbourne till 1917; retired 1917 and returned to Adelaide, where he acted as Lecturer in Banking at the University of Adelaide; Honorary Secretary, South Australian Ornithological Association 1922-38 (the longest continually serving officer in the SAOA) and a member of the Editorial Committee for South Australian Ornithologist for 11 years.

Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Sutton, J', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1309676. 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