Background
Walter Waterhouse was born in West Maitland, New South Wales, the son of educator John Waterhouse and the grandson of Wesleyan minister Jabez Waterhouse.
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Walter Waterhouse
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He was educated at Sydney Boys" High School, where his father was headmaster, and later at Hawkesbury Agricultural College where he gained a diploma in 1907.
Career
Sometime during the period of 1906-1910 Walter was headmaster at the Methodist Mission Boys High School at Daviulevu in Fiji. In 1918 Waterhouse studied at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and obtained its diploma in 1921. He developed varieties of wheat which resisted rust.
He was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1943.
A full biography of West.L.W. can be found at Associate of Applied Science Biographical Memoirs. Further biographical particulars are available at Encyclopedia of Australian Science.
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December 9, 1969 (aged 82) -
Nationality
Australia
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Military Cross Clarke Medal; Military Cross
The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest learned society in Australia and in the Southern Hemisphere, for distinguished work in the Natural sciences.The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest learned society in Australia and in the Southern Hemisphere, for distinguished work in the Natural sciences.