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Grimwade, John Frederick Thornton (1905 - 1992)AM |
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| Company director and Weather enthusiast | ||
| Born: 16 September 1905. Died: 1992. | ||
| John Frederick T. Grimwade was a weather enthusiast who bequeathed his collection of weather related newspaper clippings to the Bureau of Meteorology, detailing a long history of correspondence over temperature readings with the Bureau. He collected articles on weather and annotated them with corrected temperatures. One of his recreations listed in Who's Who was the 'study of meteorology'. Grimwade was educated at Church of England Grammar School in Melbourne and then at the University of Melbourne. He went on to become Director of Felton Grimwade & Duerdins Ltd (one of Australia’s leading pharmaceutical firms); Drug House of Australia (DHA Ltd.); Australian Consolidated Industries Ltd.; and Cuming Smith & Co. Pty Ltd. |
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