Wadham, Samuel Macmahon
Person: id 91851
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World War I
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Family name
Wadham
Given name(s)
Samuel Macmahon
Initials
S. M.
Honorific
Sir
Gender
Male
Tertiary education
Military service
Survived
Survived WWI
Occupations
Wadham S. M. : Senior Demonstrator 1919 - University of Cambridge @ Cambridge University [ Cambridge England ]Wadham S. M. : Junior Demonstrator in Botany 1919 - University of Cambridge @ Cambridge University [ Cambridge England ]Wadham S. M. : Chair of Agriculture 1925 - School of Agriculture, University of Melbourne @ University of Melbourne : Parkville [ VIC Australia ]
Other events
Wadham S. M. : Specific terms.Member, Inquiry into Dairy Industry in the Eastern States 1928Wadham S. M. : Specific terms.Member of Royal Commission on the Wheat, Flour and Bread Industries 1934 - 1935Wadham S. M. : Specific terms.Elected member of university council 1 Jan 1935 - @ University of Melbourne : Parkville [ VIC Australia ]Wadham S. M. : Specific terms.Appointed Acting Chairman of the Professorial Board 1936 - @ University of Melbourne : Parkville [ VIC Australia ]Wadham S. M. : Specific terms.Knighted 1956
Publications
Four editions (1939-64) of 'Land Utilization in Australia' with G. L. Wood.
Australian Farming 1788-1965 (1967).
Australian Farming 1788-1965 (1967).
Visible notes
From ADB Entry during time at Cambridge:
Wadham was among young academics, including J. M. (Baron) Keynes, who, wishing to reform university governance, made submissions to the 1920 royal commission on the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In addition to his teaching, Wadham pursued mycological studies with F. T. Brooks, carried out seminal research on the ecology of the Fens, and collaborated with (Sir) Frank Engledow in establishing the basis of yield variation in cereals. The latter work exhibited a rigorous mathematical approach at a time when the application of statistical method to biology was in its infancy.
From ADB Entry:
At the request of ex-servicemen, in 1929 he sat as their representative on a State government board dealing with settlement in the Mallee region; he was successful in having the sizes of farms increased.
Wadham was among young academics, including J. M. (Baron) Keynes, who, wishing to reform university governance, made submissions to the 1920 royal commission on the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In addition to his teaching, Wadham pursued mycological studies with F. T. Brooks, carried out seminal research on the ecology of the Fens, and collaborated with (Sir) Frank Engledow in establishing the basis of yield variation in cereals. The latter work exhibited a rigorous mathematical approach at a time when the application of statistical method to biology was in its infancy.
From ADB Entry:
At the request of ex-servicemen, in 1929 he sat as their representative on a State government board dealing with settlement in the Mallee region; he was successful in having the sizes of farms increased.