Lockwood, Leslie (née Jones)   (fl. 1980s - 1990s)

Leslie Lockwood spent 18 years working for the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) in Canberra.

Leslie was one of the first two female gardening supervisors appointed by Canberra's City Parks.

When the Gardens obtained significant capital works budgets in 1983 Leslie was appointed to head a new Development subsection within the Living Collections.

As computing technology started to be adopted in the Gardens, it was Leslie who advocated that the first area to have its data transferred to the new system should be the Living Collections.

She subsequently went on to manage the Plant Records Unit, mapping the plants in the Gardens and recording their links to voucher specimens in the Australian National Herbarium.

On retiring from the Gardens in the late 1990s she and her husband Keith moved to Huskisson on the NSW South Coast. Kieth sadly died in 2000.

Leslie continued providing secretariat services to the Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens and became a member of the Management Committee of the Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens near Bateman's Bay on the NSW South Coast.

She continued with her long interest in the history of botanic gardens as a member of the Australian Garden History Society.

In 2001, together with Murray Fagg and Jan Wilson, she co-authored the book: Botanic Gardens of Australia - a guide to 80 Gardens.

On May 20, 2008 Leslie recorded an Oral History interviewed by Daniel Connell, at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, part of the ANBG Oral History Project. This is held by the National Library of Australia. (Bib ID: 4399638)

Source: Extracted from:
Pers. comm. Murray Fagg (2024)
Beer, Don (2020) Miracle on Black Mountain - a history of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Halstead Press, Canberra.
https://www.myheritage.com/names/keith_lockwood
Portrait Photo: 1993, M.Fagg

Collecting localities for 'Lockwood, L.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 101 specimens