Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley) (1852-1922)

Also known as
Inclement Wragge (1852-1922)
Weatherman Wragge (1852-1922)
Wragge, Clement Lindley (1852-1922)
Wragge, Inclement (1852-1922)
Wragge, Weatherman (1852-1922)
Field of activity
conservationist; meteorologist; public servant; Meteorologist and Surveyor
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Biographies

WRAGGE, CLEMENT LINDLEY (1852-1922), meteorologist, was born on 18 September 1852 at Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, only child of Clement Ingleby Wragge, solicitor, and his wife Anna Maria, née Downing. Orphaned in early childhood, Clement was educated at Uttoxeter Grammar School, Staffordshire, and articled to a London solicitor. He went to sea, visited Sydney and in 1876 joined the South Australian surveyor-general's department. Wragge studied meteorology and in 1878 returned to Britain where he established weather observation stations, including one on Ben Nevis, Scotland, for which he received the gold medal of the Scottish Meteorological Society. Back in South Australia he set up similar stations at Walkerville and Mount Lofty in 1884, and founded the Meteorological Society of Australasia in 1886.

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Clement Lindley Wragge worked for the Surveyor-General's Department, South Australia 1876-78 when he returned to England. During the 1880s he came back to Australia and established a number of observatories. He was Queensland Government Meteorologist 1887-1902.

Wragge arrived in Australia from England as a seaman at a young age and, after some years in New South Wales and Queensland, left for the US, but returned to South Australia and came under the influence of Sir Charles Todd. He returned to England in 1878 and established the Ben Nevis Observatory in Scotland in 1881. Back in Australia, he established observatories on Mt Lofty (SA), Mt Wellington (Tasmania) and Mt Kosciusko (New South Wales) before being appointed Queensland Government Meteorologist in 1887. From there he began issuing weather maps and forecasts for the whole of Australia. When passed over for the post of Commonwealth Meteorologist in 1907 he moved to Auckland and established a private weather service. A Hundred Years of Science and Service, Bureau of Meteorology, 2001.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Encyclopedia of Australian Science

  1. Wragge, Clement Lindley (1852-1922), MeteorologistAustralian Dictionary of Biography John Ritchie 12 576-577 : Wragge, Clement Lindley (1852-1922), Meteorologist
    Wilson, Paul D.
    [1990]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
  2. The Origins of Australian Meteorology , Metarch Papers No. 12
    Gibbs, W. J.
    [1998]
    Published: Bureau of Meteorology
  3. The Origins of Australian MeteorologyFederation and Meteorology Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre : The Origins of Australian Meteorology
    Gibbs, W. J.
    [2001]
    Series: http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0805.html
  4. Experiences of a Meteorologist in South Australia [1883-1884]
    Wragge, Clement Lindley
    [1980]
    Published: Pioneer Books
  5. Federation and Meteorology
    Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    [2001]
    Series: http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/
  6. Royal Historical Society of Queensland: Clement Lindley Wragge - Records (1887 - 1902)
    Newspaper cuttings c1887-1902.
  7. State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection: Clement Lindley Wragge - Records (1877)
    Booklet containing correspondence with F. Mueller and F.G. Waterhouse 1877 relating to the preservation of natural history specimens; leaflet advertising a scientific entertainment by Wragge [2 items, MS 11124].
    MS 11124

Resources by Clement L. Wragge (16)

  1. Wragge : a meteorological, geographical and popular scientific gazette for the people of the Southern Hemisphere
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Periodical : 1902-1903 ]
    At 4 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.888)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.888)

  2. Booklet containing letters from Baron von Mueller and F. G. Waterhouse
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Unpublished : 1877 ]
    At State Library of VIC
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.427)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.427)

  3. Wragge's Australasian almanac and weather guide for land and sea
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Periodical : 1898-1900 ]
    At State Library of QLD
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.369)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.369)

  4. Wragge's Australasian weather guide and almanac for 1898
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Book : 1898 ]
    At 4 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 9.256)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 9.256)

  5. The romance of the South Seas / by Clement L. Wragge
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Book : 1906 ]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
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    At 18 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.409)

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  6. Experiences of a meteorologist in South Australia / Clement L. Wragge
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Book : 1980 ]
    At 15 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.24)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.24)

  7. Meteorology of Tasmania : Mr. Wragge's report
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Book : 1896 ]
    At 3 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.779)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.779)

  8. Meteorological instructions / by Clement L. Wragge
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Book : 1896 ]
    At Nat Met Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.405)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.405)

  9. Axial tilt / Clement L. Wragge
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Book ]
    At Nat Met Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.308)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.308)

  10. Wragge on weather : weather forecasts for 1904-5 / by Clement L. Wragge
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Book : 1904 ]
    At State Library of NSW
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.153)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.153)

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  1. Booklet containing letters from Baron von Mueller and F. G. Waterhouse
    Wragge, Clement L. (Clement Lindley), 1852-1922
    [ Unpublished : 1877 ]
    At State Library of VIC
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.309)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.309)

  2. Clement Lindley Wragge
    Adelaide Photographic Co., photographer
    [ Photograph : 1880 ]
    View online
    At State Library S Aust
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 13.733)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 13.733)

  3. Clement Lindley Wragge (1852-1922), F.R.G.S., F.R.M.S., & C. : meteorologist, astronomer, ethnologist, naturalist and collector : a very brief outline of his life and work concentrating on his years in Adelaide from 1884 to 1887 and his promotion of ...
    Adamson, Peter (Peter David)
    [ Book : 2002 ]
    At 3 libraries
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  4. The Charleville rainmaker / words by Louise Raymond ; music by Frank Hinz
    Hinz, Frank
    [ Sheet music : 1989 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.059)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.059)

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  1. Wragge : a meteorological, geographical and popular scientific gazette for the people of the Southern Hemisphere / edited and owned by Clement L. Wragge
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  2. Wragge's summit station: the Mount Kosciusko weather observatory, 1897/ 1902
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  3. The Transit of Venus
    ARGYLL; R. S. BALL; W. DOBERCK; J. L. H. DREYER; CLEMENT LINDLEY WRAGGE; W. F. DENNING; D. TRAILL; HENRY CECIL; R. LANGDON
    [ Article : 1882 ]
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  4. Thousands join Sheffield Half Marathon - RESULTS LIST
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  1. The romance of the South Seas / by Clement L. Wragge : With 84 illustrations
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  2. Wragge's Australasian weather guide and almanac
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  3. Account of the operations of the Weather bureau and list of stations
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  4. Circular : Launceston, Tasmania, 24th June 1896 / Albert J. Allom
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  1. NOTED SCIENTIST. DEATH OF MR. CLEMENT WRAGGE.
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Monday 11 December 1922 p 10 Article
    ... NOTED SCIENTIST. DEATH OF MR. CLEMENT WRAGGE. A cablegram received from Auckland yes- terday announced the death of Mr. Clement Lindley Wragge, F.R.G.S., F.R.M.S., F.R.C.A., after an illness of 14 days. Mr Wrag ... 347 words
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  2. PERSONAL ITEMS.
    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Thursday 3 June 1915 p 7 Article
    ... Nutting, of Kurilpah, Blackall Range, well known in pastoral circles. Pnvate Clement Lionel Egerton Wi ague1 reported killed, was a son of Mi\ C. L. Wragge artel of Mid. Wiagge, who at pre- sent ... M.A., made touching reference to the death from wounds of Pnvate Clement Lionel Egerton Wragge. He ... 421 words
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  3. Inigo Jones, 81, Dies After Heart Attack
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Monday 15 November 1954 p 3 Article Illustrated
    ... Iones was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and later joined the staff of Clement Lindley Wragge, ... Queensland in 1950 Mi L J Johnstone chair man of the Long i ingc Wcithei Force isting Tiust said ... 415 words
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