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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-04-19 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003187b.htm person Paton Joan AACR2 Cleland, Joan 1916? April 2000 Place of Birth Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Ornithologist Joan Paton was a keen amateur ornithologist. In the early 1960s she registered as a Bird-bander to support her son, David's (q.v.) interest in banding. (He was not allowed to register as he was under 16.) She and David and many others banded extensively in their backyard at Beaumont, as well as further afield.

Daughter of J.B. Cleland (q.v.). Widely known as an amateur ornithologist and an active Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union member. Great supporter of the South Australian Ornithological Association, of which she was Vice-President 1974-79, President 1979-82 and Honorary Member 1990. In about 1930 she won a SAOA junior prize for an essay on bird observations on her holidays. Her Workers' Education Association and Adult Education classes from the 1950s on bird observing and ornithology brought many supporters to the SAOA. She was also one of the first women to join the Adelaide Ornithologists Club.

1979 1982 Career position - President, South Australian Ornithological Association 1990 2000 Award - Honorary Member, South Australian Ornithological Association 1991 1991 Career position - President, Adelaide Ornithologists Club 2021 2021 Award - Inducted into the South Australian Environment Hall of Fame Paton, David Cleland

Joan was David's mother

 Cleland, John Burton (1878 - 1971)

John was Joan's father

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 'Paton, Joan', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Paton, Joan Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: SA Environment Hall of Fame Conservation Council SA SA Environment Hall of Fame Adelaide Conservation Council SA 2024 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 Interviews with the Cleland Sisters [sound recording]. Interviewer: Penelope A. Paton State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana Interviews with the Cleland Sisters [sound recording]. Interviewer: Penelope A. Paton OH 202 1993 2 tapes (2 hours) and a 75 page transcript. Interviews with the four daughters of Professor Sir James Cleland and Dora Cleland. The sisters are interviewed on pairs, the two oldest (Margaret and Elizabeth) and the two youngest (Barbara and Joan). The interviews focus on family life at their Fullarton and later Beaument homes, holidays on the Fleurieu Peninsula, school experiences and tertiary educations.