P007768 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2025-07-11 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2025-11-03 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007768b.htm corporateBody Wallaby Club AACR2 22 June 1894 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Membership Organisation The Wallaby Club is a Melbourne-based walking club which was established on 22nd June 1894 and held its first walk on 23rd June. It is the oldest such club in Victoria and probably in Australia. The Club motto À Votre Santé [to your health] neatly captures the spirit of the Club and its objectives of walking, talking, good companionship and entertaining engagement, with an appreciation of both the natural and built environments. Membership is limited to 75 and is by invitation only. Membership has had a focus on engineers, scientists and senior members of the medical profession. Members included Sir John Monash and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet.

Note: There were no Presidents between 1897 and 1901. Various histories of the Wallaby Club can be downloaded from their website.

 Focken, Charles Melbourne (1901 - 1978)

President 1961 - 1962

 Gillin, Laurence Murray (Murray) (1935 - )

President 2010-2011

 Hart, Alfred (1870 - 1950)

President 1930 - 1931

 Zwar, Traugott Bernhard (Bernard) (1876 - 1947)

President 1933 - 1934

 Maxwell, Leslie Algernon (Ivan) (1890 - 1964)

President 1939 - 1940

 Wadham, Samuel MacMahon (1891 - 1972)

President 1940 - 1941

 Richardson, Arnold Edwin Victor (1883 - 1949)

President 1944 - 1945

 Woodruff, Harold Addison (1877 - 1966)

President 1946 - 1947

 Bull, Lionel Batley (1889 - 1978)

President 1947 - 1948

 Harper, Herbert Reah (1871 - 1956)

President 1923 - 1924

 Simpson, George (1899 - 1960)

President 1955 - 1956

 Law, Robert (1870 - 1930)

President 1922 - 1923

 Gill, Edmund Dwen (1908 - 1986)

President 1967 - 1968

 Fitts, Clive Hamilton (1900 - 1984)

President 1975 - 1976

 Pressley, Thomas Athol (1914 - 1982)

President 1979 - 1980

 Aitchison, Gordon Douglas (1918 - 2003)

President 1981 - 1982

 Vines, Robert Godfrey (1921 - 2017)

President 1996 - 1997

 Sinha, Hari Narayan (1929 - 2023)

President 1999 - 2000

 Lovering, John Francis (1930 - 2023)

President 2003 - 2004

 Polmear, Ian (1928 - 2025)

President 2004 - 2005

 Snape, Brian

President 2009 - 2010

 Clunies Ross, William Ian (1899 - 1959)

President 1954 - 1955

 Skeats, Ernest Willington (1875 - 1953)

President 1911 - 1912

 Turner, John Stewart (1908 - 1991)

President 1962 - 1963

 Young, William John (1878 - 1942)

President 1925 - 1926

 Osborne, William Alexander (1873 - 1967)

President 1915 - 1916

 Meyer, Felix Henry (1858 - 1937)

President 1917 - 1918

 Littlejohn, Murray John (1932 - 2024)

Joined 1981; President 2005 - 2006

 Garran, Richard Randolph (1903 - 1991)

President 1969 - 1970

 Monash, John (1865 - 1931)

President 1920 - 1921

 Burnet, Frank Macfarlane (1899 - 1985)

President 1945 - 1946

 Latham, Leslie Scott (1879 - 1950)

President 1926 - 1927

 Clendinnen, Frederick John (1860 - 1913)

President 1912 - 1913

 Jenkin, John G.

Member

 Gregory, John Walter (1864 - 1932)

President 1903 - 1904

 Nanson, Edward John (1850 - 1936)

President 1897 - 1898

 Lay, Maxwell Gordon (1936 - )

Joined 2010; President 2017 - 2018

 Swan, John Melvin (1924 - 2015)

President 1984 - 1985

 Coombes, Lawrence Percival (1899 - 1988)

President 1974 - 1974

 Baracchi, Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto (1851 - 1926)

President 1904 - 1905

 Kernot, William Charles (1845 - 1909)

President 1901-1902

 Home, Roderick Weir (1939 - )

Joined 1992; President 2007 - 2008

 McCarthy, Gavan John (1956 - )

Joined 2003

 Syme, George Adlington (1859 - 1929)

President 1913 - 1914

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