Spencer, Walter Baldwin - Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne Biographical entry (original) (raw)

23 June 1860

Born Lancashire, England.

1884

Graduated from Oxford (BA)

1886

Lincoln College Fellow

1887

Appointed to the foundation chair of biology at the University of Melbourne

1888

Foundation of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science. Spencer attended inaugural meeting of the Associaton, and the Protection of Native Birds and Mammals Committee formed following a motion by Spencer.

1890

Appointed first Victorian Secretary of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science

1891 - 1893

President of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria

1894

Zoologist and Photographer in Horn Expedition

1895

Ttrustee of the National Gallery of Victoria

1895 - 1897

President of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria

1899

Honorary Director of the Natural Museum of Victoria

1899

Honorary Director of the National Museum of Victoria

1900

Awarded FRS

1904

Awarded CMG

1904

President of the Royal Society of Victoria

1904

President of the Royal Society of Victoria

1907

Spencer suggests to the Government that it set up a committee to advise the government on all matters concerned with the preservation or destruction of Australian fauna, i.e. national parks.

1916

Awarded KCMG

1919

Retired as Emeritus Professor

1928

Resignation as Director of the Natural Museum of Victoria

14 July 1929

Died Navarin Island, Tierra del Fuego.