Margaret and Frederick Jowett
Margaret Rosemary Jowett (known as 'Maurge,' née Ferguson, 1930–2023) and Frederick William Jowett (known as 'Freddie' 1922–1986), often referred to professionally as Mr. and Mrs. F. Jowett, were an Australian couple who lived and worked on Norfolk Island and were known for recording the insect species of the Island.[1][2]
The Jowetts moved to Norfolk Island in 1963 so that Frederick could become the Island's communications engineer and operate an ionospheric station.[1] Frederick also served as a magistrate.[1] Margaret trained and worked as a nurse, particularly for older people.[3][2] Frederick Jowett died on 1 October 1986.[1] In 2002 Margaret Jowett was awarded the Order of Australia for her community work and ecological work.[4] Margaret died on 27 September 2023.[2]
Entomology
[edit]From 1971 to 1984 the Jowetts supported the work of British research entomologist Jeremy Holloway, including contributing species occurrence records to the book The Lepidoptera of Norfolk Island: Their Biogeography and Ecology (1977).[5][6] In 1973, the Jowetts collected the Holotype specimen of the Norfolk Island moth Gymnoscelis smithersi (Holloway, 1977).[7][8]
Some insect specimens collected by the Jowetts are in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London.[9][10][11]
Margaret Jowett would sometimes give entomologists who visited Norfolk Island research space at her home.[12] In March 1985 M. Christian and M. Sexton collected a species of the mite family Malaconothridae in Margaret's garden at Red Road, which in 2013 was named in Margaret's honour as the new species Malaconothrus jowettae Colloff & Cameron, 2013.[13] The Type specimens of Malaconothrus jowettae are part of the Australian National Insect Collection, at CSIRO in Canberra.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "VALE: to a man of the community [Frederick William Ernest Jowett]" (PDF). The Norfolk Islander. October 1986.
- ^ a b c "Eulogy – Margaret Jowett". Norfolk Online. 5 October 2023.
- ^ "Margaret Ferguson in the UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878–1960 [Margaret Ferguson, later Jowett, travelling to the UK in 1957 as a nurse from Fremantle]". ancestry.co.uk.
- ^ "Australian Honours Search Facility: Award ID: 1132505". honours.pmc.gov.au.
- ^ Holloway, Jeremy (1977). Series Entomologica 13: The Lepidoptera of Norfolk Island: Their Biogeography and Ecology. The Hague: Dr. W. Junk.
- ^ Holloway, Jeremy D. (1990). "Guest Editorial: Norfolk Island and Biogeography for the Nineties: Ideas from a Dot on the Map". Journal of Biogeography. 17 (2): 113–115. JSTOR 2845320.
- ^ "Gymnoscelis smithersi (Holloway, 1977)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Collection specimens – Specimens – NHMUK014176142 – Data Portal". data.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Collection specimens – Specimens – BMNH(E)608958 – Data Portal". data.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Collection specimens – Specimens – NHMUK014409194 – Data Portal". data.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Collection specimens – Specimens – NHMUK014416872 – Data Portal". data.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ Smithers, C.N.; Peters, J.V.; I.W.B. Thornton (1999). "The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Norfolk and Philip Islands: occurrence, status and zoogeography ["acknowledgments" section]". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 121: 109 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ a b Colloff, Matthew J.; Cameron, Stephen L. (24 June 2013). "A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of the oribatid mite family Malaconothridae (Acari: Oribatida), with new species of Tyrphonothrus and Malaconothrus from Australia". Zootaxa. 3681 (4): 327–330. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3681.4.1. PMID 25232614 – via mapress.com.
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