Archive of past Queensland Entomologists
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Thomas Emmanuel WOODWARD (1918 – 1985)
Tom Woodward was born to a bookish Yorkshire migrant family in Auckland, NZ. Wrote and published poetry, won garden prizes and started collecting insects in teens. Attended agricultural high school, topped national scholarship competition. Undertook BSc and entomology MSc, University of NZ (now Auckland U.), completed 1942. Immediately drafted to WW2 NZ Army in malaria control. Served two years based New Caledonia but visited many other islands. Collected Hemiptera everywhere. Then to Egypt and Italy until end WW2 1945. Went direct to London under NZ Govt. assistance to do PhD on reproductive behaviour of Hemiptera at Imperial College under Prof. O.W.Richards. Returned NZ 1948 and lectured in zoology at Univ. of NZ until 1951 when appointed lecturer in new Ento. Dept. at Univ. of Qld, Brisbane, under F.A.Perkins. Had started series on NZ Hemiptera but changed to Australian fauna and did extensive field work. Published mostly on Lygaeidae sens. lat. but also 17 other families. Supervised many postgraduate students and was scrupulous editor of manuscripts and theses. Senior author Hemiptera chapter in 1970 first edition of Insects of Australia. Visiting professor at Univ Wisconsin in 1969/70. Retired 1983 and worked as Honorary at QM and DPI until death. Editor for journals of Royal Society of Qld and Entomological Society of Qld. President of ESQ (1955) and Queensland Naturalists’ Club.
Obituary: Monteith, G.B. 1986. News Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Queensland 13: 139-140; Monteith, G.B. 1986. News Bulletin of the Australian Entomological Society 22: 55-57.