Tietkens, William Harry or Henry (1844–1933)

Born 30 August 1844 at Ball's Pond, Islington, England; emigrated to South Australia in September 1859 aboard the Alma; married to Mary Anne Long on 14 June 1882 (by the Rev. William Woolls) in Richamond, New South Wales; died 19 April 1933 in Lithgow, New South Wales.

William Harry (or Henry) Tietkens accompanied Ernest Giles on an expedition to Central Australia in 1873 and again in 1875 on a journey from Beltana, South Australia to Perth. He later joined the New South Wales Department of Lands as a surveyor in 1891.

Sources: Australian Dictionary of Biography https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tietkens-william-harry-4722
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000833b.htm
"Marriages", Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper, 27 June 1882, p. 1. Accessible online at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13513586
Portrait: William Henry Tietkens, c. 1875, by Elliott & Fry (photographers), State Library of South Australia Portrait Collection B 6976.

Herbarium specimen collecting localities for 'Tietkens, W.H. from AVH (21/2/2017)

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