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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001555b.htm person Crommelin Minard Fannie MBE AACR2 29 June 1881 14 February 1972 Place of Birth Bombala, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Pearl Beach, New South Wales, Australia Conservationist Postmistress Minard Crommelin, generally known as "Crommy", was educated at SCEGGS at Darlinghurst. She began work at fourteen as an unpaid assistant to the postmistress at Mittagong and eventually became an official member of the Postal Service. She worked as a postmistress for over 25 years and was one of the early operators of the "Morse Telegraph Key". She was the first postmistress at Woy Woy (1906-1910) and it was during this period that she grew to love the bush of the New South Wales central coast area. After her retirement in the mid 1930s she visited England and Europe, contacting many conservation and natural history societies (she was a member of 154 of them). On her return to Australia she bought seven acres of land at Pearl Beach, which she donated to the University of Sydney in 1946 to establish the Crommelin Biological Field Station, known as Warrah. She continued to be interested and active in nature conservation and from 1960 onwards donated a total of $17,768 to the Australian Academy of Science, some of which still exists as the Crommelin Conservation Fund. A road in Campbelltown has been named in her honour. She was appointed MBE - Member of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) - 1 January 1959 for flora and fauna.

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 'Crommelin, Minard Fannie', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Crommelin, Minard Fannie Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Crommelin, Minard Fannie (1881-1972), postmistress and conservationist Teale, Ruth Crommelin, Minard Fannie (1881-1972), postmistress and conservationist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1981 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 155-156 Book Section: Minard Crommelin (1881-1972) conservationist Teale, Ruth Minard Crommelin (1881-1972) conservationist Sydney Women's Redress Press Inc 1988 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology Heather Radi Edited Book: 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology Radi, H. 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology Sydney Women's Redress Press Inc 1988 Minard Fannie Crommelin - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Minard Fannie Crommelin - Records A3637 1947 - 1954 'Deed of gift of land and effects' of Crommelin to the University of Sydney for the establishment of the Crommelin Biological Station, Pearl Beach, Woy Woy 1947 with an inventory of household goods and library contents, the layout of the buildings and a letter 1954 [A3637]. 1 file Minard Fannie Crommelin - Records University of Sydney, Archives Minard Fannie Crommelin - Records P 51 1881 - 1970 Crommelin Biological Research Station records 1939-68; Warrah Sanctuary trust correspondence 1940-55; Gosford District Flora and Fauna Protection Society records 1948-55; Mosman Tree Lovers Civic League records 1932-34; general conservation research records 1931-66; letters from Nina Campbell 1912-70; personal documents 1881-1969 including correspondence and a typescript autobiography; diaries 1915, 1949-70; photographs 1887-1967; press cuttings 1904-66, [2.8 m, P 51]. 2.8 m Photographs