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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-03-22 human Rosanne Walker updated 2026-05-04 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003174b.htm person Middleton William George Dyer OAM AACR2 28 September 1926 2 July 2018 Place of Birth Victoria, Australia Place of Death Bowral, New South Wales, Australia Forester Ornithologist Bill Middleton, the District Forester for Wimmera Forest Nursery in Wail (1959-1976), was awarded an OAM in January 1999, 'for service to conservation and the environment, and to land management.' He has worked for many years, largely through the Trust for Nature Victoria, for the preservation of native vegetation and bird habitat.

Son of Antarctic expeditioner (1915) Dr Fred Middleton, William George Dyer (Bill) Middleton grew up in Nhill and was educated at the School of Forestry in Creswick. Like his father who hosted many visiting ornithologists, including Crosbie Morrison and Charles Bryant (qq.v), Bill introduced Ernst Mayr to the Wimmera in 1959, also American Roger Tory Peterson (1965, 1971), and British ornithologists Reg Moreau (1963) and Peter Scott (1971). Bill and Allan McEvey (q.v.) were the Australians working with J.D. McDonald (q.v.) on the first Harold Hall Expedition of the British Museum in 1962. Bill Middleton broadcasted regularly on ABC Wimmera Radio for fourteen years on gardens, birds and natural history and also did television work.

1941 Career position - Member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1959 1976 Career position - District Forester at the Wimmera Forest Nursery in Wail, near Dimboola, Victoria 1962 1962 Career position - Harold Hall Expedition of the British Museum 1999 1999 Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) - for service to conservation and the environment and to land management Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1910 - 1997)

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 Middleton, William George Dyer (1926-)

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 'Middleton, William George Dyer (Bill)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Middleton, William George Dyer (Bill) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation 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