Herbert Ward Wilson

Herbert Ward Wilson (29 September 1877 – 1 October 1955) was an Australian science lecturer and naturalist.

Education

B. Com 1sth computer eng.

World War 1

Wilson's studies were interrupted by the First World War. Enlisting in the Australian Imperial Forces in 1915, he served at Gallipoli and in Egypt and France, being steadily promoted and rising to the rank of Major by the time of his demobilization in 1919. He was awarded the Military Cross, the Belgian Croix de guerre and was appointed to the OBE.[1]

Career

After the war Wilson married Myra Hester Smith in 1920. Resuming his studies, he gained a BSc in 1920 and a MSc in 1925. This was followed by a career of lecturing on biological science, and especially botany. He was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, the Bird Observers Club, the Microscopical Society and the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, from the latter of which he was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1943. He died at his home in Caulfield, being survived by a son.[1]

gollark: The NSA is not known for actually following laws.
gollark: > That’s how other countries can so easily hack computers, it’s literally designed to beI'm more inclined to blame this on modern software stacks just being really complicated and often not designed for security.
gollark: > The NSA forces Microsoft and other OS makers to provide backdoors with full admin privilegesThis seems kind of dubious, especially in the open-source OSes which are around.
gollark: > Maybe one day we’ll have an OS without forced backdoors for the NSA...?
gollark: It's not very lasseiz-faire to have local government-enforced monopolies.

References
  1. Kloot, Tess. (1990). 'Wilson, Herbert Ward (1877-1955)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pp 523-524.


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