Person

Sweet, George (1844 - 1920)

Sweet, George Portrait
Details

Born: 1844
England
Died: 1920
Occupation: Geologist

Summary

George Sweet was an amateur geologist and ran the Brunswick Brick, Tile & Pottery Co. He built up an extensive fossil collection and worked for Frederick McCoy in the Mansfield district, Victoria 1888-1895 and with Edgeworth David on the Funafuti expedition in 1897. President of the Royal Society of Victoria 1905.

Related Corporate Bodies

Royal Society of Victoria (1859 - )
President 1905

Archival resources

Museum Victoria

George Sweet - Records, 1888 - 1920; Museum Victoria. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

MacCallum, Monica, 'Sweet, Georgina (1875-1946), Zoologist, Academic and Philanthropist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 12 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 149-150. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120168b.htm. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5544989. Details
'Sweet, George', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467298. Details

Digital resources

Title: Sweet, George Portrait
Type: Image

Details

McCarthy, G.J.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018

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