Researching David Stead
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6125 people with the Stead surname? In that year Stead was ranked number 685 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name David means "beloved" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of David Stead on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for David Stead and the Stead Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 6809 people with the Stead surname in the UK? Stead is now ranked number 884 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Stead surname in the USA? Stead is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called David Stead
David George Stead
David George Stead (6 March 1877 – 2 August 1957) was an Australian marine biologist, ichthyologist, oceanographer, conservationist and writer. He was born at St Leonards in Sydney, and educated at public schools and the Sydney Technical College. In 1909 he was a founder of, and during its early years the main driving force behind, the Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia. In December 1912 he became an inaugural committee member of the Eugenics Society of New South Wales. His career included many government positions both in Australia and in Malaya. He served as the Australian representative on international committees concerned with fisheries science, marine biology and oceanography. He married three times, the third time to botanist and writer Thistle Yolette Harris in 1951. He died at his home in Watsons Bay, Sydney.
Stead is commemorated in the David G. Stead Memorial Wild Life Research Foundation of Australia, and the Wirrimbirra Sanctuary at Bargo, New South Wales, established by his third wife in his memory in the early 1960s. Mount Stead in the Blue Mountains is named after him. He was survived by two daughters and three sons of his second marriage and by the only child of his first marriage, the novelist Christina Stead.
Sam in The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead is partly modelled on her father.
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