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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn updated 2025-12-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001925b.htm person Paradice William Edward John AACR2 21 February 1897 3 November 1927 Place of Birth Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Physician Entomologist Marine zoologist William Paradice graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney in 1920. The following year he joined the Royal Australian Navy as a Surgeon Lieutenant. His main sea posting was to H.M.A.S. Geranium from 1923 during her cruise through Queensland and Northern Territory waters. In 1926 he was promoted Surgeon Lt Commander, posted to Garden Island in Sydney Harbour. Paradice made the most of his free time to study marine zoology, particularly fish and echinoderms. He had a fruitful association with the Australian Museum, frequently donating insects and other specimens including those collected during his posting to Geranium. In 1926 he made a hydrographic survey of the Gunnamatta mudflats at Port Hacking with the museum's entomologist, Anthony Musgrave. Paradice was a member of several local scientific societies, serving on the council of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and as President of the Microscopical Society of New South Wales. Among his publications were papers on corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Northern Territory fishes, and a description of an new genus of sea snake.

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July 1918 July 1918 Career event - Joined the Australian Imperial Force 1920 1920 Education - MB ChM, University of Sydney 1921 1926 Career position - Surgeon Lieutenant, Royal Australian Navy 1926 1927 Career position - Surgeon Lt Commander, Royal Australian Navy Royal Australian Navy, Commonwealth of Australia (1911 - )

Surgeon Lt Commander 1926 - 1927

 Australian Museum (1827 - )

Paradice donated insect, fish and other specimens to the Museum

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 Paradice, William Edward John (18970221-19271103)

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 'Paradice, William Edward John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Paradice, William Edward John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Musgrave, A. Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Sydney Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1932 Resource Section: Lieutenant Commander (Surgeon) William Edward John Paradice Broadhead, John Lieutenant Commander (Surgeon) William Edward John Paradice Journal Article: The late W. E. J. Paradice and the Australian Museum Whitley, G. P. The late W. E. J. Paradice and the Australian Museum 1928 Australian Museum magazine 3 5 169-70 Book: The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 Prince, J. H. The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 Sydney Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales 1979