Person

Reedy, Thomas (1842 - 1929)

Born
1842
Ireland
Died
January 1929
Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia

Summary

Thomas Reedy was gardener at Camden Park, the family estate of the Macarthur family, from 1854 to 1926. He rose to be head gardener and worked closely with William Macarthur in his horticulture endeavours. In 1875 he was the most senior of three plant collectors on the Chevert Expedition, a natural history and ethnographic collecting expedition to New Guinea financed and led by William Macleay. Collections of botanical material (seeds, approximately 1,000 living plants and nearly 170 dried specimens) were made along the northern Queensland coast, on islands in Torres Strait, and in New Guinea. The specimens were sent to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller for identification.

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  • Fulton, G. R., 'Thomas Reedy 1842 - 1929: gardener for Sir William Macarthur and plant collector on the Chevert Expedition to New Guinea in 1875', Cunninghamia, 16 (2016), 51-63. Details
  • Fulton, G. R.; and Milne, J., 'Letters from Thomas Reedy to Sir William Macarthur, during the Chevert expedition of 1875', Cunninghamia, 19 (2019), 29-32. http://doi.10.7751/cunnnghamia.2019.19.003. Details

See also

  • Van Steenis-Kruseman, M. J., Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 (Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff NV, 1950), clii, 639 pp. Details

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