Kathleen Sherrard

Kathleen Margaret Maria Sherrard (15 February 1898 – 21 August 1975) was an Australian geologist and palaeontologist.

The daughter of John McInerny and Margaratta Wright (née Brayshay), she was born Kathleen McInerny in North Carlton, Melbourne. She received a BSc and MSc from the University of Melbourne. She became a demonstrator and then assistant geography lecturer at the University. She spent six months in 1927 working under Professor Arthur Hutchinson at the mineralogical laboratory of the University of Cambridge. In 1928, she married Howard Macoun Sherrard; the couple had two sons.[1]

Sherrard was a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales, the Royal Society of Victoria, the Linnean Society of New South Wales and the Geological Society of Australia. She published articles on graptolites. In 1939, she helped establish the Australian Association of Scientific Workers. In 1967, she examined fossil collections in Peking (later Beijing).[1]

She tried to promote an increased involvement by women in science.[2]

Sherrard died at home in Centennial Park, Sydney at the age of 77.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898–1975)". Australian Dictionary of Biography.
  2. ↑ Burek, Cynthia V; Higgs, Bettie (2007). The Role of Women in the History of Geology. pp. 184–85. ISBN 1862392277.

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