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Jack Simmonds was a noted plant pathologist who worked in the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock. Father Howard Simmonds was an ardent member of the Queensland Naturalists’ Club. Wife of Howard and mother of Jack, Rose Simmonds was a noted photographer who studied art with Godfrey Rivers at the Brisbane Technical College. From 1927 Rose Simmond became involved in the Queensland Camera Club and the Australasian Photo-Review. She was associate (1937) of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. Simmonds’ home was built in around 1893.

Citations

Brisbane City Council, Heritage Register Summary, http://bit.ly/2loHClG ; G. S. Purss, ‘Simmonds, John Howard (Jack) (1901–1992)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/simmonds-john-howard-jack-16125/text28067, published online 2016, accessed online 17 April 2018; Keith Bradbury, ‘Simmonds, Rose (1877–1960)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/simmonds-rose-11691/text20893, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 17 April 2018.

Image Citations

Heather Fox. Pen-y-Bryn home of J. Howard Simmonds and his wife Rose (Culpin), and son Jack Simmonds

Map References

QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 4 chains to the inch. Brisbane and suburbs. Sheet 1. 4 chains to the inch. Brisbane, Survey Office. 634532