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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. & Rosanne Walker updated 2026-03-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000986b.htm person Ashby Edwin AACR2 2 November 1861 8 January 1941 Place of Birth Capel, Surrey, England Place of Death Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Naturalist Ornithologist Edwin Ashby, an Adelaide estate agent, built up a large natural history collection, much of which he donated to the South Australian Museum in 1932. He became a world authority on recent and fossil chitons, a class of molluscs, discovering over 20 new taxa. His other absorbing interests included birds and the cultivation of Australian plants, on both of which he wrote extensively. Ashby worked for his father, a tea merchant, before visiting Australia for his health in 1884-7, ultimately migrating to South Australia in 1888. Initially he engaged in the wattle-bark industry, before joined a cousin's firm of land and estate agents and financiers c.1890: the firm was later named Saunders and Ashby. The firm owned and largely developed much of Eden Hills. Retiring in 1914 to his property, Wittunga, in the Adelaide Hills, Ashby continued an independent business from his home, and established a bird sanctuary and a nursery for growing Australian native shrubs. (After being donated to the Adeelaide Botanic Gardens in 1965, Wittunga ultimately became the Wittunga Botanic Garden.) Ashby was a prominent member of local naturalists' societies, holding office as President in several. The bird genus Ashbyia was named in his honour. 1899 Career position - Foundation Member, South Australian Ornithological Association 1899 1899 Career position - President, Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia 1900 1919 Career position - Member of Council, Royal Society of South Australia 1901 1910 Career position - Foundation member, Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1910 1941 Career position - Member, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1914 1914 Life event - Retired 1915 1941 Award - Life Member, British Ornithologists' Union c. 1918 c. 1918 Career position - Corresponding Fellow, American Ornithologists' Union 1919 1921 Career position - Vice-President, Royal Society of South Australia 1925 1926 Career position - President, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union Ashby, Alison Marjorie (1901 - 1987) Ashby, Arthur Keith (Keith) (1896 - 1971) Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1910 - 1997)

President 1925 - 1926

 Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1901 - 1910)

Foundation Member 1901 - 1910

 Robertson, Enid Lucy (1925 - 2016)

Edwin Ashby was the grandfather of Enid Robertson

 Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia (1883 - 1959)

President 1899

 South Australian Ornithological Association (1899 - )

Foundation Member 1899 -

 Wittunga Botanic Garden, State of South Australia (1975 - )

Original owner of the property

 Royal Society of South Australia (1880 - )

- Member of Council 1900-- 1919; Vice-President 1919 - 1921

 South Australian Museum (1940 - )

Ashby donated his collections the Museum 1932

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 Ashby, Edwin (1861-1941)

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 'Ashby, Edwin', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Ashby, Edwin Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Ashby, Edwin (1861-1941), estate agent and naturalist Robertson, Enid Ashby, Edwin (1861-1941), estate agent and naturalist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 108-109 Journal Article: The regional distribution of Australian chitons (Polyplacophora) Ashby, E. The regional distribution of Australian chitons (Polyplacophora) 1925 Report of 17th meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 366-93 Journal Article: Notes on, and additions to, the chitons fauna of north-west Tasmania, together with a brief review of the genus Stenochiton Ashby, Edwin Notes on, and additions to, the chitons fauna of north-west Tasmania, together with a brief review of the genus <span style="font-style:italic">Stenochiton</span> 1926 Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1926 92-117 Journal Article: Fossil chitons from Mornington, Victoria Ashby, Edwin Fossil chitons from Mornington, Victoria 1939 Proceeding of the Linnean Society of London 151 3 186-9 Journal Article: Edwin Ashby, 1861-1942 Winkworth, R. Edwin Ashby, 1861-1942 1942 Journal of molluscan studies 25 1 1-2 Journal Article: Edwin Ashby, 1861 - 1941 Anon Edwin Ashby, 1861 - 1941 1941 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65 1 1-2 Journal Article: Obituary and bibliography of Edwin Ashby Condon, H. T. Obituary and bibliography of Edwin Ashby 1941 Emu 40 5 409-13 Journal Article: Additional type shells from Tasmania in the South Australian Museum Macphail, M. K.; and Zeidler, W. Additional type shells from Tasmania in the South Australian Museum 1978 The Tasmanian naturalist 52 2-6 Resource: Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Fagg, Murray Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH) 2010 Journal Article: Monograph of the Australian Loricates (Phylum Mollusca - Order Loricata), IX: appendix C, biography and bibliography Iredale, Tom; and Hull, A. F. Bassett Monograph of the Australian Loricates (Phylum Mollusca - Order Loricata), IX: appendix C, biography and bibliography 1927 Australian zoologist 4 339-59 Journal Article: Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre 1905-1986 Aroney, M. J.; Buckingham, A. D. Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre 1905-1986 1988 Historical Records of Australian Science 7 3 273-297 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001 Edwin Ashby - Records State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana Edwin Ashby - Records D 5080(L) 1934 - 1936 Correspondence of Edwin Ashby, Blackwood, S.A., with the Royal Society of S.A., and with Sir Oliver Lodge in England. (The correspondence refers to the publication of Ashby's paper 'The impact of the psychic on the physical'). 0.005 m Edwin Ashby - Records Private hands (Robertson, E.L.) Edwin Ashby - Records 1861 - 1941 Records and diaries of the Ashby family c1861-1941. Australian Botanists - Biographies Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Australian Botanists - Biographies MS 064 Hunt Institute Biographies. Short biographies, averaging 2 pages, of Australian botanists, botanical collectors or artists. 0.24 m, 3 boxes