Newman, Ivor Vickery

Newman was born in Balmain in 1902. He was an undergraduate at the University from 1921 to 1925. 

Newman was a postgraduate student in the Department of Botany 1926-1929 and 1932-1936, and held a Linnaean Macleay Fellowship from 1933 to 1936. The University of Sydney conferred on Newman the degrees of BSc in 1926 and MSc in 1928. In 1929-1931, Newman studied at Kings College, University of London from which he graduated with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1931. He was appointed to a senior lectureship in Botany in 1956; and he retired in 1967. 

As a botanist, Newman was noted for his studies on Australian Acacias, and for his teaching. In 1946, his textbook "The Living Plant" was published; this was designed for university students of Botany in Australasia. 

Newman held honorary positions with various scientific organisations including Sydney University Botanical and Biological societies, Wellington (NZ) Botanical Society, Ceylon Natural History Society, and the Royal Society of New Zealand biological section. He married Rewa Burton BA DipEd in 1934. After his death in 1987, obituaries were published in the University News and the Linnaean Society Newsletter.

A publication with poems by him is held at the National Library of Australia, Dated 1924, it is on Australian themes and subjects immediately after the Great War.