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| Wilfred Alexander Watt DE BEUZEVILLE (1884 - 1954) |
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| Date |
Age |
Event |
Place |
Notes |
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| 13 Feb 1884 |
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Wilfred Alexander Watt DE BEUZEVILLE was born |
Bombala, New South Wales, Australia |
25033/1884 |
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| 09 Jan 1907 |
22 |
Married Frances Fanny Helena RATLIFF (aged 36) |
Tumut, New South Wales, Australia |
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73 |
| 23 Jul 1908 |
24 |
Birth of son Wilfred Paressien DE BEUZEVILLE |
Tumut, New South Wales, Australia |
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73 |
| 29 Jun 1910 |
26 |
Birth of daughter Helene Babette DE BEUZEVILLE |
Tumut, New South Wales, Australia |
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73 |
| 1924 |
40 |
Death of mother Hannah Ann WATT |
North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
6644/1924 |
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| 28 Mar 1954 |
70 |
Wilfred Alexander Watt DE BEUZEVILLE died |
Kiama, New South Wales, Australia |
4950/1954 |
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| Personal Notes: |
Wilfred Alexander Watt de Beuzeville, was born at Aston Station, Bombala, New Sonth Wales, on 13 February 1884, son of James Paroissien de Beuzeville, station manager, and his wlfe Hannah Ann, née Watt. He was educated at a prlvate school at Bombala and at Tumut Superior Public School, passing the junior public examination in 1899, then worked on the land. He was a grazier at Tumut when he married Frances Helena Ratliff on 9 January 1907.
De Beuzeville joined the Department of Forestry (Forestry Commission from 1916) on 26 March 1912, and was stationed at Warialda. As a forest assessor from November 1915, he surveyed the resources of the Pilliga scrub south-west of Narrabri. In 1920 he became Assistant Forester at Tumbarumba and in 1925 was promoted to Senior Forester. At Tumut he supervised the establishment of the conifer plantations from September 1925 until 1928.
With the local headmaster C. A. Teasdale he helped to establish the Tumut School Forest, which interested children in forestry, and became a source of revenue for the school.
From 1928 he was stationed in the metropolitan district, Sydney. He made extensive collections of specimens for the National Herbarium of New South Wales. In 1938 he became a divisional officer and from 1947 headed the new Forest Ecology Branch. He retired in 1948.
Survived by a son and daughter de Beuzeville died in hospital it Kiama on 28 March 1954. |