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6 unusual facts about Baldwin Spencer


1860 in Australia

23 June - Sir Baldwin Spencer, the first person to study Australia anthropology.

Alfred James Ewart

At the university Ewart had no separate building and for many years shared the biology school building with Sir Baldwin Spencer.

Baldwin Spencer

:For the anthropologist, see Walter Baldwin Spencer

Georgina Sweet

Her early research was supervised by Baldwin Spencer and was on Australian fauna, but her later studies were based in the veterinary department working on parasites.

Mount William stone axe quarry

The Director of the Museum of Victoria, Baldwin Spencer, sought to establish a committee in association with the Historical Society of Victoria to purchase a portion of the area to form a reserve.

William C. McClelland

In 1912, McClelland became president of the Melbourne Football Club, a position he relinquished when elected to the presidency of the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1926, succeeding Baldwin Spencer.


Legendary progenitor

Robert Alun Jones discussed Baldwin Spencer's study of the Alcheringa ancestors of the Arunta tribe in Australia as having both a spirit "ulthana" and a syzygy spirit "arumburinga".

Molwyn Joseph

Despite a scandal surrounding donations he had received from Texan businessman Robert Stafford, Joseph was selected to contest the seat of St Mary's North in the 2004 Antiguan general election, in which the ALP lost power, being replaced in government by the United Progressive Party (UPP) led by Baldwin Spencer.


see also

Baldwin Spencer Building

The School of Biology was renamed Zoology in 1920 when W E Agar succeeded Baldwin Spencer.