Dudley Le Souef
William Henry Dudley Le Souef (28 September 1856 – 6 September 1923) was a founding member and founding Secretary of the
National Museum of Victoria
.
Around 1902 he succeeded his father as director of Melbourne Zoo, and held that position until March 1923, when he retired due to ill-health. He had been violently attacked and robbed in 1919[1] and never properly recovered. His successor was Andrew Wilkie.[2]
Le Souef was born on 28 September 1856, son of Albert Alexander Cochrane Le Souef and Caroline Le Souef,[3] daughter of John Cotton. Two of his brothers were zoologists Ernest Albert Le Souef and Albert Sherbourne Le Souef.[4]
Works
- The animals of Australia : animals, reptiles and amphibians, by Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas, assisted by Le Souef. Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1909.
- The birds of Australia, by Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas and Le Souef. London: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1911.
References
- ^ "The Zoo Robbery". The Age. Victoria, Australia. 21 May 1919. p. 10. Retrieved 21 February 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ "Zoo Chief Dead". The Herald (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 6 September 1923. p. 5. Retrieved 21 February 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Age. No. 608. Victoria, Australia. 30 September 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 12 June 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ISBN 9780643065673. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3
External links
- Media related to William Henry Dudley Le Souef at Wikimedia Commons