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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001133b.htm person Callaghan Allan Robert Kt AACR2 24 November 1903 18 July 1993 Place of Birth Perthville, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Wattle Park, South Australia, Australia Agricultural scientist Public servant Allan Callaghan was Principal of the Roseworthy Agricultural College of South Australia from 1932 to 1949 and then South Australian Director of Agriculture (1949-1959). He was educated at the Universities of Sydney (BScAgr) and Oxford (DPhil) and spent the next four years in plant breeding research with New South Wales Department of Agriculture. 1932 1949 Career position - Principal of the Roseworthy Agricultural College in South Australia 1941 1945 Career position - Chairman, Crown Land Development Committee of South Australia 1945 1945 Award - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) 1945 1951 Career position - Chairman, Land Development Executive, South Australia 1949 1959 Career position - Director of Agriculture in South Australia 1954 1954 Award - Farrer Memorial Medal, Farrer Memorial Trust 1959 1965 Career position - Commercial Counsellor in Washington, USA 1965 1971 Career position - Chairman, Australian Wheat Board 1972 1972 Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt) Farrer Memorial Medal (1936 - )

Awarded the Medal 1954

 South Australian Department of Agriculture [III], State of South Australia (1908 - 1975)

Director of Agriculture 1949 - 1959

 Roseworthy Agricultural College, The University of Adelaide (1883 - 1991)

Principal 1932 - 1949

 Advisory Council - CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1950 - 1986)

Member 1956-1957

 Callaghan, Allan R (19031124-19930718)

Trove

 'Callaghan, Allan Robert', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Callaghan, Allan Robert Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Allan Callaghan: a Life Humphreys, L. R. Allan Callaghan: a Life Carlton South Melbourne University Press 2002 Book Section: Callaghan, Sir Allan Robert (1903 - 1993), agricultural scientist and public servant Stock, H. M. P. Callaghan, Sir Allan Robert (1903 - 1993), agricultural scientist and public servant Canberra Australian National University Press 2021 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 19: 1991 - 1995 A-Z Melanie Nolan 127-8 Resource: Farrer Memorial Trust Medal recipients and orations New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Farrer Memorial Trust Medal recipients and orations Sydney New South Wales Department of Primary Industries 2023 Allan Robert Callaghan - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Allan Robert Callaghan - Records MS 4850 1923 - 1974 Semi-official and personal correspondence, notes, reports, speeches, articles, photographs and press cuttings relating mainly to the years 1959-74; PhD thesis 'Studies on the Oat Plant'; overall dates 1923-74 [1.89 m, MS 4850]. 1.89 m