Delph L W
Leonard William (Bill) Delph 1892 - 1974
Bill Delph was born in Cambridge, England. A Cambridge graduate in science and WW 1 veteran, Bill lived for a period in Canada after the first World War, studying forest botany at University of Toronto at post-graduate level and also teaching at Upper Canada College.
His war service was with the Canadian Engineers and the Royal Engineers Signals[1]. After service in France he was in the Middle East, including serving at the Battle of Beersheba where he won the Military Cross.
Bill's later career included a period as a science teacher at Kings College Auckland (1923-32) and later after a break from teaching, at New Plymouth Boys High School.
He and his wife, painter Birtchnell Delph ran Parnell House at Kings for nearly seven years. He later was a visiting agriculture teacher at Northland schools after the second World War.
He was a regular contributor the Weekly News and the New Zealand Herald on conservation matters and was for a period on the staff of the Herald between Kings College and New Plymouth.
He published a few papers on archaeology but perhaps his greater contribution to science was being one of the inspirations for pupil Charles Fleming'scareer[2].
Reference
- ↑ Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 96, 19 October 1940, Page 7 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19401019.2.17&srpos=8&e=01--1920-01-01-1945--10--1----2delph--
- ↑ Fleming C, 2008 Shell Collecting in the 1920s. pp144-149 in R Priestley Ed.(Anthology) The Awa Book of New Zealand Science, Awa Press, Wellington.
Bibiliography
- 1939 Cave Drawings Near Tongaporutu, Taranaki. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 48(2):116-21.
- and G Archey 1930 The Piraunui Pa at Matawhana, Waikato. Records of the Auckland Museum 1(1):57-69.
