Julius, Edward   (1868 - 1951)

He was born on 10 January 1868 in Sydney; died: 9 Aug 1951 in Sydney, aged 83.
[Wikipedia gives his date of birth as 25 September 1873]

He was the son of William Warner Julius, millowner and canegrower of Cudgen, NSW. His mother was Sarah Jane Julius who had emigrated from Dromore, County Tyrone around 1875.

His early education was at Calder House in Redfern when Dr Joseph David Sly was the proprietor and headmaster. After that independent school closed down in Sydney Julius was enrolled aged 12 at Newington College on 28 January 1880. The following year Newington moved from Newington House on the Parramatta River to Stanmore. He finished his schooling in 1883.

He started with the forestry service around 1908. He was a forest guard at Warialda, NSW, for the NSW Forestry Service in 1912, and at Narrabri in 1913. He was promoted to Forest Assessor, Armidale in 1917, then Acting Assistant Forester, Narrabri, in the same year, made permanent in 1918. He moved to Orange in 1920.

In July 1921 he was appointed Forester in charge of the North-Western District of Tasmania, based in Burnie.

In October 1923 he won an appointment as Conservator of Forests in South Australia, succeeding Walter Gill. The public notice of appointment included:

'... He made a special study of the increment growth in relation to the rotation of crops of various indigenous and exotic species, and other matters. He has also studied the growth of conifers and visited New Zealand for the Tasmanian Government in connection with an enquiry regarding pine growing...'

Source: Extracted from:
Hall, N. (1978) Botanists of the eucalypts. CSIRO, Melbourne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Julius
https://www.thekingscandlesticks.com/webs/pedigrees/724.html
Portrait Photo: ex Wikipedia, J.H.Chinner, no date.

Collecting localities for 'Julius, E.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 64 specimens