Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1923-1972. (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
23 boxes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Frederick William Whitehouse (1900 - 1973) was a Queensland geologist. Whitehouse completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of Queensland in 1922 and was awarded the Government Gold Medal in Geology that year. He completed a Master of Science in 1924. Taking a University Travelling Scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge, he gained his PhD there in 1925 with a thesis on marine Cretaceous sequences in Australia. Returning to Australia, Whitehouse was appointed Queensland Government Geologist in the Department of Mines in 1925. The following year he took up a position as lecturer at the Department of Geology at the University of Queensland. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Queensland in 1939. In 1941 Whitehouse enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, and primarily applied his knowledge to road-building activities in Queensland and New Guinea. Following the war, Whitehouse was seconded to the Department of Co-ordinator-General of Public Works and was on the committee of post-war re-construction. In 1948 he returned to lecturing at the University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1949. Whitehouse resigned from the University in 1955 following a charge of committing an act of gross indecency with a minor. A conviction was overturned by the High Court 1957. Whitehouse continued to work as a consulting geologist until his death in 1973. His most important work was on the Cambrian faunas of North-Eastern Australia in the 1930s and on the Great Australian Artesian Basin throughout the 1950s.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1923-1972
Collection alternatively titled as: Frederick William Whitehouse Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Geological papers and reports, correspondence, maps, and photographs. Also includes geological study materials prepared for high schools, financial records, and papers prepared for the Queensland Naturalists' Club.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access. Box 23 is restricted.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Condon, M. (2016). Little fish are sweet. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press.
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma MMS ID
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Queensland Naturalists' Club (Subject)
- Whitehouse, Frederick William, 1900-1973 (Subject)
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Description control area
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Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Migrated
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.