Frederick Stoward (1866–14 December 1931) was the Government Botanist with the

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in Western Australia from 1911 to 1917. Born at

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, Somerset, England, he was a member of the Hardy family famous for the Hardy Wine Company. He emigrated to Australia when he was about 15 years old, and was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Sydney. He returned to England, studying under Adrian Brown at the

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, where he gained his DSc. He later studied at the

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in Paris, and on returning to Australia he was appointed Government Vegetable Pathologist in Western Australia. After several years he won a position in the serum laboratory at the Royal Park Laboratories in

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, before taking up the position of Government Botanist with the Department of Agriculture in 1911. In 1917 he retired, returning to the family wine business in South Australia. He died in

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. Stoward specialised in fermentation and other chemical processes, publishing papers like ''On the Influence Exercised by certain Acids on the Inversion of Saccharose by Sucrase'' and ''On Endospermic Respiration in Certain Seeds''. He did not publish any taxa, and so does not have a botanical author abbreviation. He did, however, collect the type of '' Eucalyptus stowardii'', which was named in Stoward's honour by

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in 1917.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stoward, Frederick 1866 births 1931 deaths Botanists active in Australia Botany in Western Australia English botanists People from Axbridge Scientists from Western Australia