Richard Hind Cambage
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Richard Hind Cambage
Early life
Cambage, son of John Fisher Cambage, was born at Applegarth near Milton, New South Wales. He was educated at state and private schools (including Ulladulla Public School), and for a short time was a teacher at the Milton State School. In 1878 he became an assistant to M. J. Callaghan, surveyor, and took part in the survey of National Park in 1879 and 1880. On 11 July 1881 at the Elizabeth Street registry office, Sydney, he married Fanny Skillman (d.1897), daughter of the headteacher at Ulladulla.
Surveying career
He qualified as a licensed surveyor in June 1882, was engaged in the
Although a busy public servant he contrived to carry on a large amount of other work and cultivated many interests. Front 1909 to 1915 he lectured on surveying at Sydney Technical College, was on three occasions elected president of the Institution of Surveyors, and was for 15 years a member of its board of examiners.
Botany career
He had early become much interested in geology and botany, and between 1901 and 1903 contributed to the Linnean Society a series of "Notes on the Botany of the Interior of New South Wales" of which as "Notes on the Native Flora of New South Wales", a further long series was published over a period of more than 20 years. He was secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales from 1914 to 1922 and from 1925 to 1928 and was president in 1912 and 1923.
He was a member of the council of the
Acacia cambagei and Eucalyptus cambageana were named after him.[1]
References
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Cambage, Richard Hind". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
- McMinn, W.G. Cambage, Richard Hind (1859–1928), MUP, 1979, pp 529–530.