People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Jock the Backyard Naturalist

Birth

17 February, 1911
Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Death

20 July, 1967 (aged 56)
Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

cancer (not specified)

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Agnostic

Education

• Dumbleton Public School (NSW)
• Kogarah High School (Sydney)
• University of Sydney
• Oxford University

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• army officer
• natural history collector
• ornithologist
• radio commentator
• zoologist

Military Service

• World War II
• Z Special Unit

Legacies

• Jock Marshall Reserve (Monash University)

Key Organisations

• Australian Museum (Sydney)
• Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union

Workplaces

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• St Paul's College (University of Sydney)
• University of Sydney (zoology)
• University of London
• Monash University (zoology)