1925 in Australia
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1924 in Australia
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1926 in Australia
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1924 in Australia
1924 in Australia
See also:1923 in Australia,other events of 1924,1925 in Australia and theTimeline of Australian history.-Incumbents:*Monarch – King George V*Governor-General – Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster*Prime Minister – Stanley Bruce-State premiers:...
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other events of 1925,
1926 in Australia
1926 in Australia
See also:1925 in Australia,other events of 1926,1927 in Australia and theTimeline of Australian history.-Incumbents:*Monarch – King George V...
and the
Timeline of Australian history
Timeline of Australian history
This is a timeline of Australian history.-BC:*c. 68,000–40,000 BC: Aboriginal tribes are thought to have arrived in Australia.*c. 13,000 BC: Land bridges between mainland Australia and Tasmania are flooded. Tasmanian Aboriginal people become isolated for the next 12,000 – 13,000 years.*c...
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Incumbents
- MonarchMonarchy in AustraliaThe Monarchy of Australia is a form of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign of Australia. The monarchy is a constitutional one modelled on the Westminster style of parliamentary government, incorporating features unique to the Constitution of Australia.The present monarch is...
– King George VGeorge V of the United KingdomGeorge V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936.... - Governor-GeneralGovernor-General of AustraliaThe Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth...
– Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster (until 8 October) then John Baird, 1st Viscount StonehavenJohn Baird, 1st Viscount StonehavenJohn Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL , known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth... - Prime MinisterPrime Minister of AustraliaThe Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...
– Stanley BruceStanley BruceStanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, CH, MC, FRS, PC , was an Australian politician and diplomat, and the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. He was the second Australian granted an hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom, but the first whose peerage was formally created...
State premiers
- Premier of New South Wales – George FullerGeorge Fuller (Australian politician)Sir George Warburton Fuller KCMG was Premier of New South Wales, Australia on two occasions during the 1920s. His first term of office lasted less than one day ; his second lasted from 13 April 1922 to 17 June 1925.-Early life:Fuller was born in Kiama, New South Wales and was educated at Kiama...
(until 17 June), then Jack LangJack Lang (Australian politician)John Thomas Lang , usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms... - Premier of Queensland – Ted TheodoreTed TheodoreEdward Granville Theodore was an Australian politician. He was Premier of Queensland 1919–25, a federal politician representing a New South Wales seat 1927–31, and Federal Treasurer 1929–30.-Early life:...
(until 26 February), then William GilliesWilliam Gillies (Australian politician)William Neil Gillies was ALP Premier of Queensland, Australia, from 26 February 1925 to 22 October 1925....
(until 22 October), then William McCormackWilliam McCormackWilliam McCormack , was Premier of Queensland, Australia, from 1925 to 1929.He was born in Purnam, Queensland and died in Brisbane on 21 November 1947.... - Premier of South Australia – John GunnJohn Gunn (Australian politician)John Gunn was the 29th Premier of South Australia.Gunn was born in Bendigo, Victoria, the second of nine children to a Scottish miner and his wife...
- Premier of Tasmania – Joseph LyonsJoseph LyonsJoseph Aloysius Lyons, CH was an Australian politician. He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931...
- Premier of Victoria – John AllanJohn Allan (Australian politician)John Allan , Australian politician, was the 29th Premier of Victoria. He was born near Lancefield, where his father was a farmer of Scottish origin, and educated at state schools. He took up wheat and dairy farming at Wyuna and was director of a butter factory at Kyabram...
- Premier of Western AustraliaPremier of Western AustraliaThe Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive government in the Australian State of Western Australia. The Premier has similar functions in Western Australia to those performed by the Prime Minister of Australia at the national level, subject to the different Constitutions...
– Philip CollierPhilip CollierPhilip Collier was Premier of Western Australia for nine years, the longest ever term for an Australian Labor Party premier....
State governors
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir Dudley de ChairDudley de ChairAdmiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair, KCB, KCMG, KBE, MVO was a Naval Officer and Governor. De Chair joined the Royal Navy from the age of 16 and served in the Anglo-Egyptian War and later as an Admiral in the First World War. He was appointed as Governor of New South Wales in 1923...
- Governor of Queensland – Sir Matthew NathanMatthew NathanLieutenant-Colonel Sir Matthew Nathan GCMG, PC was a British soldier and civil servant, who variously served as the Governor of Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Natal and Queensland...
(until 17 September) - Governor of South Australia – Sir Tom Bridges
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir James O'GradyJames O'GradySir James O'Grady, KCMG was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the first colonial governor appointed by the Labour Party from within its own ranks.- Early life :...
- Governor of Victoria – George Rous, 3rd Earl of StradbrokeGeorge Rous, 3rd Earl of StradbrokeGeorge Edward John Mowbray Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke KCMG CB CVO CBE VD TD was a British noble and the 15th Governor of Victoria, Australia....
- Governor of Western AustraliaGovernor of Western AustraliaThe Governor of Western Australia is the representative in Western Australia of Australia's Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The Governor performs important constitutional, ceremonial and community functions, including:* presiding over the Executive Council;...
– Sir William CampionWilliam CampionColonel Sir William Robert Campion KCMG, DSO, TD, DL was a British politician and Governor of Western Australia from 1924 to 1931....
Events
- 26 January – Australia's oldest commercial radio stationRadio stationRadio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
, 2UE2UE2UE is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia owned by Fairfax Media. It is Sydney's and Australia's oldest commercial radio station, first broadcasting on 26 January 1925 on 1025 kHz AM before moving to 950 kHz in 1935 when virtually all Australian radio stations were assigned new...
, begins broadcasting in SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
. - 20 May – The Murrumbidgee RiverMurrumbidgee RiverThe Murrumbidgee River is a major river in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory . A major tributary of the Murray River, the Murrumbidgee flows in a west-northwesterly direction from the foot of Peppercorn Hill in the Fiery Range of the Snowy Mountains,...
floods for eight days killing four people. - 30 May – Millicent Preston-StanleyMillicent Preston-StanleyMillicent Preston-Stanley was an Australian feminist, politician and the first female member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and the second woman to enter government in Australia.Preston-Stanley was born in Sydney...
becomes the first woman member of the New South Wales Legislative AssemblyNew South Wales Legislative AssemblyThe Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...
. - 3 June – A general electionTasmanian state election, 1925A general election for the House of Assembly was held in the Australian state of Tasmania on 3 June 1925 .-Background:The ambiguous result of the 1922 election had seen a coalition form between the Nationalist and Country parties, and John Hayes was appointed Premier of Tasmania...
is held in TasmaniaTasmaniaTasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
. The LaborAustralian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
government of Joseph LyonsJoseph LyonsJoseph Aloysius Lyons, CH was an Australian politician. He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931...
is returned in a landslide victory. - 9 June – Ten people are killed in a derailmentDerailmentA derailment is an accident on a railway or tramway in which a rail vehicle, or part or all of a train, leaves the tracks on which it is travelling, with consequent damage and in many cases injury and/or death....
near Traveston railway station, QueenslandTraveston railway station, QueenslandTraveston Station is a railway station at Traveston on the Nambour and Gympie North Line of South East Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Queensland Rail City network.The station is in Zone 23 of the TransLink integrated public transport system.... - 1 September – Thomas BlameyThomas BlameyField Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars, and the only Australian to date to attain the rank of field marshal....
becomes Chief Commissioner of Victoria PoliceVictoria PoliceVictoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. , the Victoria Police has over 12,190 sworn members, along with over 400 recruits, reservists and Protective Service Officers, and over 2,900 civilian staff across 393 police stations.-Early history:The Victoria Police...
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Science and technology
- The CactoblastisCactoblastis cactorumCactoblastis cactorum, commonly known as the Cactus Moth, South American Cactus Moth, or Nopal Moth, is native to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. It is one of five species in the genus Cactoblastis that lives in South America...
moth is introduced in Queensland to control Prickly PearOpuntiaOpuntia, also known as nopales or paddle cactus , is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae.Currently, only prickly pears are included in this genus of about 200 species distributed throughout most of the Americas. Chollas are now separated into the genus Cylindropuntia, which some still consider...
cactus.
Arts and literature
- John LongstaffJohn LongstaffSir John Campbell Longstaff was an Australian painter, war artist and a five-time winner of the Archibald Prize. He was a cousin of Will Longstaff, also a painter....
wins the Archibald PrizeArchibald PrizeThe Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...
for his portrait of Maurice Moscovitch
Sport
- Victoria wins the Sheffield ShieldPura CupThe Sheffield Shield is the domestic cricket competition of Australia. The tournament is contested between teams from the six states of Australia. Prior to the Shield being established, a number of intercolonial matches were played. The Shield, donated by Lord Sheffield, was first contested during...
- 26 September – GeelongGeelong Football ClubThe Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...
defeats CollingwoodCollingwood Football ClubThe Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
10.19 (79) to 9.15 (69), becoming premiers of the 1925 VFL season1925 VFL seasonResults and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1925.-New Teams:In 1915, and from 1919 to 1924, there were nine teams in the VFL competition...
. - 3 November – Windbag wins the Melbourne CupMelbourne CupThe Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...
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Births
- 8 February – Francis WebbFrancis Webb (poet)Francis Charles Webb-Wagg was an Australian poet who published under the name Francis Webb. "Diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia in the 1950s, he spent most of his adult life in and out of psychiatric hospitals, writing poetry against terrible odds." He is widely regarded as one of...
, poet (d. 1973) - 10 February – Basil HennessyBasil HennessyJohn Basil Hennessy AO , is an Australian archaeologist of the Ancient Near East and Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney.-Childhood, early career and education:...
, archaeologist - 11 February – George AveryGeorge AveryGeorge Avery was an Australian athlete who mainly competed in the men's triple jump event....
, Olympic triple jumper - 17 February – Joy NicholsJoy NicholsJoy Eileen Nichols born in Sydney, Australia was a comedienne and actress who worked in Australia, Britain and the United States. She is best known as a star of Take It From Here on BBC Radio....
, comedian and actress - 19 March – Creighton BurnsCreighton BurnsCreighton Lee Burns, AO was an Australian journalist and academic, who was editor-in-chief of The Age newspaper in Melbourne from 1981 to 1989.-Early life and naval career:...
, journalist and editor-in-chief of The Age (d. 2008) - 4 April – Dorothy AlisonDorothy AlisonDorothy Alison was an Australian stage, film and television actress.She was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, and was educated at Sydney Girls High School. She moved to London, England in 1949 to further her career...
, actress (d. 1992) - 21 April – Anthony Mason, Chief Justice of the High Court
- 4 June – Peter Benjamin GrahamPeter Benjamin GrahamPeter Benjamin Graham , was an Australian visual artist, a master craftsman in a variety of printing techniques, and an art theorist. Peter saw no contradiction between abstract and figurative art...
, artist (d. 1987) - 6 July – Ruth CracknellRuth CracknellRuth Cracknell AM was an Australian theatre and television character actress who appeared in many comedy roles. She was known variously as "Crackers", "Dame Crackers" and "Dame Ruth" throughout a career spanning 56 years....
, actor (d. 2002) - 18 July – Shirley StricklandShirley StricklandShirley Barbara Strickland AO, MBE , later Shirley de la Hunty, was an Australian athlete. She won more Olympic medals than any other Australian in running sports.-Family:...
, athlete (d. 2004) - 19 August – Laurie SawleLaurie SawleLawrence Michael "Laurie" Sawle is a former first-class cricketer from Western Australia....
, cricketer - 21 August – Don ChippDon ChippDonald Leslie Chipp, AO was an Australian politician, and the inaugural leader of the Australian Democrats.-Early life:...
, politician and founder of the Australian DemocratsAustralian DemocratsThe Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New LM, after principals of those minor parties secured the commitment of former Liberal minister Don Chipp, as a high profile leader...
(d. 2006) - 24 August – Duncan HallDuncan HallDuncan Hall was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s, singled out as having been amongst the greatest of the 20th century. He played in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for Fortitude Valley Diehards and represented Queensland and Australia. He has been named amongst...
, rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 50s (d. 2011) - 27 August – Fred EmeryFred EmeryFrederick Edmund Emery, nick Fred, was an Australian psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in the field of Organizational development , particularly in the development of theory around participative work design structures such as self-managing teams. He was widely regarded as one of the finest...
, psychologist (d. 1997) - 27 August – Ken GrievesKen GrievesKenneth James Grieves was an Australian first class cricketer who played for Lancashire. A middle order batsman, he made 452 first-class appearances for Lancashire and made a county record 555 catches...
, cricketer (d. 1992) - 27 August – Bill NeilsonBill NeilsonWilliam Arthur "Bill" Neilson AC was Premier of Tasmania from 1975 to 1977.Born in Hobart, Tasmania, and educated at Ogilvie High School, Neilson became a postman. He married Jill Benjamin, daughter of Phyllis Benjamin, in Melbourne in 1948...
, Premier of Tasmania (1975–1977) (d. 1989) - 24 September – Harry Jenkins (senior)Harry Jenkins (senior)Henry Alfred Jenkins AM , Australian Labor politician, was Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives during the term of the Labor government of Bob Hawke....
, politician (d. 2004) - 4 October – Renfrey PottsRenfrey PottsProfessor Renfrey Burnard Potts AO, , BSc , D Phil , DSc , FAA, FTSE, FACS, FAustMS, was an Australian mathematician and is notable for the Potts model and his achievements in: operations research, especially networks; transportation science, car-following and road traffic; Ising-type models in...
, mathematician (d. 2005) - 18 October – Thomas MillarThomas MillarThomas Bruce "T.B." Millar AO was an Australian historian, political scientist and a major figure in the development of strategic studies in Australia....
, historian (d. 1994) - 24 October – Ken MackayKen MackayKenneth Donald Mackay was an Australian cricketer who played in 37 Tests from 1956 to 1963....
, cricketer (d. 1982) - 17 November – Charles MackerrasCharles MackerrasSir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan...
, conductor - 23 November – James KillenJames KillenSir Denis James "Jim" Killen, AC, KCMG , was an Australian politician.-Education and early career:Killen was born in Dalby, Queensland and educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in law...
, politician (d. 2007) - 10 December – Norm McDonald, Australian rules footballer (d. 2002)
Deaths
- 24 January – William Aitcheson HaswellWilliam Aitcheson HaswellWilliam Aitcheson Haswell was a Scottish-born Australian zoologist specialising in crustaceans, winner of the 1915 Clarke Medal.-Early life:...
(b. 1854), zoologist - 4 February – Richard Godfrey RiversRichard Godfrey RiversRichard Godfrey Rivers was an English artist, active in Australia and president of the Queensland Art Society from 1892-1901 and 1904-08....
(b. 1859), artist - 23 February – John Holman (b. 1872), West Australian politician
- 1 March – Rev. John FergusonJohn Ferguson (clergyman)Rev. John Ferguson was a Scottish born Australian Presbyterian minister.-Early life:John Ferguson was born on 27 December 1852, at Shiels, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the third son of William Ferguson, a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth, née Mitchell...
(b. 1852), Presbyterian minister - 16 April – Thomas McCawleyThomas McCawleyThomas William McCawley was a chief justice of Queensland.McCawley was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. He was of Irish-Catholic background, his father having been born in County Leitrim, Ireland. On his mother's side he had German ancestry, his mother coming from Darmstadt, Germany...
(b. 1881), Chief Justice of Queensland - 20 April – Rose ScottRose ScottRose Scott was an Australian women's rights activist who protested for women's suffrage and universal suffrage in New South Wales at the turn-of-the twentieth century .-Early life:...
(b. 1847), social reformer - 28 April – Richard ButlerRichard Butler (Australian politician)Sir Richard Butler was an Australian politician and Premier of South Australia.-Early life:Butler was born at Stadhampton, near Oxford, England, elder son of Richard Butler, pastoralist, and his wife Mary Eliza, née Sadler. The family emigrated to South Australia, arriving in Adelaide on 8 March...
(b. 1850), Premier of South Australia (1905) - 1 May – Arthur McCabeArthur McCabeArthur John Michael McCabe was a pioneer Australian rugby union and rugby league player. He represented for Australian in rugby union at the 1908 Summer Olympics.-Rugby union career:...
(b. 1887), Olympic rugby union player - 22 June – Matthew GibneyMatthew GibneyBishop Matthew Gibney was born in November 1835 at Killeshandra, Cavan, Ireland. He studied for the priesthood at the preparatory seminary at Stillorgan and from 1857 at the Catholic Missionary College of All Hallows, Drumcondra, Dublin...
(b. 1835), Catholic bishop who gave last rites to Ned Kelly - 27 June – Simpson NewlandSimpson NewlandSimpson Newland CMG , pastoralist, author and politician, was a pioneer in Australia who made significant contributions to development around the Murray River. He was also an author of practical works and novels....
(b. 1835), Murray River pioneer - 18 July – Edward RussellEdward Russell (Australian politician)Edward John Russell was an Australian politician.Russell was born in Warrnambool, Victoria and educated at Newport State School and St Mary's Catholic School, Williamstown...
(b. 1878), Victorian politician - 26 July – William TrenwithWilliam TrenwithWilliam Arthur Trenwith was a pioneer trade union official and labour movement politician for Victoria, Australia.Born to convict parents at Launceston, Tasmania, he followed his father's trade as a bootmaker...
(b. 1846), trade unionist - 3 August – William BruceWilliam Bruce (cricketer)William Bruce was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Tests between 1885 and 1895....
(b. 1864), cricketer - 30 August – Magnus CromartyMagnus CromartyMagnus Cromarty was an Australian politician.Cromarty was born in Anna Bay, New South Wales and educated at Newcastle High School. He was elected as a Nationalist Party member for Newcastle in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1922. He died in the Newcastle suburb of Merewether.-Notes:...
(b. 1875), NSW politician - 5 September – Reginald Augustus Frederick MurrayReginald Augustus Frederick MurrayReginald Augustus Frederick Murray was an Australian geologist.Murray was born in Frimley, Surrey, England, the eldest child of Captain Virginius Murray and his wife Elizabeth Alicia, née Poitier. He was brought to Australia in 1855 by his mother in 1855, three years after his father had...
(b. 1846), geologist - 28 September – Joseph BrownJoseph Brown (Australian politician)Joseph Tilley Brown was an English-born Australian politician.- Early life :Brown was born at St. John's, Surrey, England, to marine captain Joseph Brown and Amelia, née Tilley. The family migrated to Victoria, Australia when young Joseph was seven...
(b. 1844), politician - 3 October – Charles Web GilbertCharles Web GilbertCharles Marsh Web Gilbert was a self-taught Australian sculptor renowned both within Australia and abroad.Gilbert was born near Maryborough, Victoria. His father died when he was two months old, and his mother was left with three young children. Gilbert received a state school education but began...
(b. 1867), sculptor - 24 October – Charles KenninghamCharles KenninghamCharles Kenningham was an English opera singer best remembered for his roles in the 1890s with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company....
(b. 1860), English opera singer - 4 November – Paddy HannanPaddy HannanPatrick "Paddy" Hannan was a gold prospector whose discovery on 17 June 1893 near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia set off a gold rush in the area....
(b. 1840), gold prospector - 13 November – Charles McDonaldCharles McDonald (Australian politician)Charles McDonald was an Australian politician who served as Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives during the second and third Andrew Fisher Labor governments between 1910 and 1913 and between 1914 and 1917....
(b. 1860), politician - 16 November – Joseph MaidenJoseph MaidenJoseph Henry Maiden was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the Eucalyptus genus. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Maiden when citing a botanical name.Joseph Maiden was born in St John's Wood, London...
(b. 1859), botanist