Biographical entry Clifford, H. Trevor (1927 - )

Summary

Trevor Clifford is an Honorary Research Associate of the Queensland Herbarium and an Honorary Fellow (Geoscience) of the Queensland Museum. Throughout his career, which included a thirty-four year tenure at the University of Queensland, he received many scholarships and awards from top funding bodies including the Nuffield, Carlsberg German Cultural and University of Queensland Foundations. As part of his Master of Science Degree , Clifford mapped 180 square kilometres of the Dandenong Ranges, analysed the geographical distribution of the eucalypts, and prepared a relief model of the area. This study was the foundation for his life-long fascination with plant genetics, statistics and evolution. Clifford next received an Australian National University Scholarship to study at the University of Durham (U.K.) for a Doctor of Philosophy Degree. On completion of these studies he accepted a lectureship in Agricultural Botany at the University College of Ibadan in Nigeria. In 1958 he returned to Australia taking up a Lectureship in Botany at the University of Queensland. He retired in 1992 with the title of Prof Emeritus.

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Events

1948

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1948 - 1953

Career position - Botany Tutor, then Senior Tutor and part-time Lecturer at the University of Melbourne.

1951

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1953 - 1955

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at Durham University (conferred 1956)

1955 - 1958

Career position - Lecturer in Agricultural Botany at University College, Ibadan in Nigeria

1958 - 1992

Career position - Lecturer and Professor of Botany at the University of Queensland

1965 -

Award - Fellow of the Linnean Society

1974

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne

1990

Career position - Visiting Professor at the Agricultural University in Beijing, China

1994

Career position - Visiting Professor at the University Nusa Cendana in Kapang, Indonesia

Published resources

Book Sections

• Clifford, H. Trevor, 'Herbert, Andrew Desmond (1898-1976), Professor of Botany', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, p. 438. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140504b.htm. Details
• Clifford, H. Trevor, 'White-Haney, Rose Ethel Janet (1877-1953), Botanist', in John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 16, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 536-537. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160638b.htm. Details

Edited Books

• Clifford, Harold T. (ed.), Cambridge - Castlemaine: a Tribute to John Stewart Turner on the Occasion of his 80^th Birthday, Botany Department, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 1988, 71 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Clifford, H. Trevor, 'William Thomas Williams 1913-1995', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 12, no. 1, Australian Academy of Science, 1998, pp. 99-118. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9981210099.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Clifford, H T', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-459152. Details