Professor Walter Lawry Waterhouse

Professor of agricultural science
Born
31 August 1887, West Maitland, New South Wales
Died
9 December 1969, Concord, New South Wales
Sex
Male
Father
John Waterhouse (school principal)
Mother
Hephzibah Lawry
Married Dorothy Blair Hazlewood

Degrees

1914Bachelor of Science in AgricultureThe University of Sydney
1929Doctor of Science in AgricultureThe University of Sydney

Career

  • Agricultural scientist.
  • Headmaster in Fiji Reader in Agriculture, USyd 1937-46, Research Prof of Agriculture 1946-52.
  • Wheat breeder.
  • CMG 1955.

Military service

  • First World War: Lieutenant 1st AIF (MC 1916).

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