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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.
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1891Birth in Ealing -- Middlesex, England 31 October 1891
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1913Tertiary education at Christ's College, Cambridge, England 1913
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1913Tertiary education at Christ's College, Cambridge, England 1913
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1915Military service 26 February 1915
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1917Tertiary education at Christ's College, Cambridge, England 1917
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1919Junior Demonstrator in Botany at Cambridge University -- Cambridge, England 1919
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1919Senior Demonstrator at Cambridge University -- Cambridge, England 1919
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1925Chair of Agriculture at Parkville -University of Melbourne- VIC, Australia 1925
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1928Member, Inquiry into Dairy Industry in the Eastern States 1928
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1934Member of Royal Commission on the Wheat, Flour and Bread Industries 1934 - 1935
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1935Elected member of university council 1 Jan 1935 at University of Melbourne : Parkville [ VIC Australia ]
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1936Appointed Acting Chairman of the Professorial Board 1936 at University of Melbourne : Parkville [ VIC Australia ]
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1956Knighted 1956
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1972Wadham S. M. : Death 18 Sep 1972
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