Webster, Leonard Clarke (1869 - 1942)

Born on 3 Dec 1869, at Launceston, Tas.; died at West Maitland, NSW, on 26 September 1942.  

Leonard became a qualified chemist on 13 Oct 1892.

He commenced work as a pharmacist and by 1900 was living in the Kalgoorlie area, W.A., and sold botanical specimens to the British Museum.

He later studied medicine at Edinburgh University; he passed his second year in 1904 and practised medicine in Tasmania and New South Wales.

Leonard married Marguerite Adelaide Harington on 29 Jun 1907 in Mosman, NSW. Their daughter Barbara was born in Launceston on 24 Jul 1908. There may have been other children born in NSW.

Leonard practised as a doctor in a suburb of Sydney.

He died at Maitland in 1942 in his 73rd year. His wife Marguerite had died aged 60 in Paddington in 1935.

He is honoured in the name Eucalyptus websteriana Maiden (1916) and was also collector of the type.

Collecting localities for 'Webster, L.C.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 299 specimens