Chambers, Thomas Carrick

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Agent TypePersonIdentifierUMA-AG-000000037Activities & OccupationsAcademics - BotanyGenderMaleHistoryProfessor Carrick Chambers, a graduate of New Zealand, Melbourne and Sydney who had held various academic posts in Auckland and Sydney and studied with the C.S.I.R.O and at Cambridge, became Lecturer in Botany at the University of Melbourne in 1961. Promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1964, he became Professor in 1967. He was prominent on committees within and outside the University: Chairman of the Royal Botanic Gardens Trust Research Committee; the Maud Gibson (Gardens) Trust, the Rippon Lea Garden Committee (National Trust) and the University of Melbourne Grounds Committee. In 1986 he became the Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney and retired in 1996.Search records of this agent

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Chambers, Thomas Carrick