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15. Frederick Sheppard GRIMWADE [19095] (Edward⁹, William⁶, John¹) was born on 10 Nov 1840 in Norfolk England and died on 4 Aug 1910 in Caulfield Melbourne VIC Australia at age 69.

Frederick married Jessie Taylor SPRUNT [19096] [MRIN: 7630], daughter of John SPRUNT [19124] and Grace FRENCH [19125], on 29 Jul 1865. Jessie was born in 1842 in Launceston Colony of Tasmania and died on 3 Aug 1916 at age 74.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 18 M    i. Edward Norton GRIMWADE [19116] was born on 25 May 1866 in St Kilda Melbourne Colony of Victoria and died in 1945 at age 79.

   19 F    ii. Elizabeth Florence GRIMWADE [19117] was born in 1867.

Elizabeth married Arthur Edwin BATTLE [19130] [MRIN: 7638] in 1890 in Holy Trinity Church Melbourne Colony of Victoria.

+ 20 M    iii. Harold William GRIMWADE [19118] was born on 18 May 1869 in St Kilda Melbourne Colony of Victoria and died on 2 Jan 1949 at age 79.

   21 F    iv. Alice Marian GRIMWADE [19119] was born in 1871 in St Kilda Melbourne Colony of Victoria.

   22 F    v. Olive Gertrude GRIMWADE [19120] was born in 1872 in St Kilda Melbourne Colony of Victoria.

+ 23 M    vi. Alfred Sheppard S GRIMWADE [19093] was born in 1874 in Melbourne Colony of Victoria and died in 1941 at age 67.

   24 M    vii. Frederick Risdon GRIMWADE [19121] was born in 1878 in St Kilda Melbourne Colony of Victoria.

   25 M    viii. Sir Wilfred Russell GRIMWADE, Cbe [19122] was born on 15 Oct 1879 in Caulfield Melbourne Colony of Victoria and died on 2 Nov 1955 at age 76.

General Notes:
Grimwade, Wilfrid Russell (Russell) (1879 - 1955) Sir
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Chemist and Business executive
Born: 15 October 1879 Caulfield, Victoria, Australia. Died: 2 November 1955.
Grimwade held directorships in many chemical companies. He was also a keen botanist, especially of the eucalypts and was official botanical adviser to the Army Department during World War II. His name is commemorated by the Western Australian orchid "Prasophyllum grimwadeanum".

Career Highlights
Born 15 October 1879. Died 2 November 1955. CBE 1935, Kt 1950. Educated University of Melbourne (BSc). Went into the family firm of Felton, Grimwade & Co., becoming a partner in 1907. The firm amalgamated with Duerdins and Sainsbury in 1929 to become Felton Grimwade and Duerdins Pty Ltd (later known as Drug Houses of Australia (Victoria) Pty Ltd) and he became a Director. Keen botanist, especially of the eucalypts. Official botanical adviser to the Army Department during World War II and when drugs were in short supply during the war, he grew and processed a number of important plant sources at his country home "Westerfield" in Victoria; he also developed a process for extracting fixed oil from apricot kernels to replace olive oil and manufactured hyoscine. Generous philanthropist, who gave £50,000 to the University of Melbourne towards the building of the Russell Grimwade School of Biochemistry, £20,000 to the Commonwealth Forestry and Timber Bureau (£5,000 in 1929 and £15,000 in 1954) for the Russell Grimwade Prize for "the encouragement of scientific forestry", £10,000 to equip the Forest Products Laboratory in Victoria, and Captain Cook's cottage in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne to the people of the city of Melbourne. President, Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria 1909 and 1910, Chairman, Australian Chemical Institute 1946-47, Chairman, Trustees of the National Museum of Victoria and president, Australian Forest League. Commemorated by the Russell Grimwade Lecture of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

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See Also 'Turner, John Stewart - AAS Biographical Memoir', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 3, 1993, <http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/turnerjs.htm>. [ Details <http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/scripts/bs-bib.php3?pubid=BSOL00638> ] Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 3 May 2000, <http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P002563>. [ Details <http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/scripts/bs-bib.php3?pubid=ASBS00016> ] Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, <http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P002563>. [ Details <http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/scripts/bs-bib.php3?pubid=ASBS00480> ]

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Wilfred married Mabel Louise KELLY [19138] [MRIN: 7644], daughter of Gordon Colman KELLY [19139] and Agnes Dalziel WILSON [19140], on 12 Oct 1909 in Toorak Melbourne VIC Australia.

   26 F    ix. Fanny Frederika GRIMWADE [19123] was born in 1883.

Fanny married Richard Clive TEECE [19147] [MRIN: 7649].