Organic Agriculture

Abstract

First, some background to the Leeper Lecture with a Western Australia flavour. Sir John Winthrop Hackett was a Sub Dean of Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and crucial to the establishment of The University of Western Australia. He was a friend of Alexander Leeper, who was the first Warden of Trinity College, and he named one of his sons Geoffrey Winthrop Leeper after Sir John Winthrop Hackett. Geoffrey Leeper became a Professor at The University of Melbourne where he taught Alan Robson who is now the Hackett Professor of Agriculture and Vice Chancellor of UWA. I heard some of this history from Professor Don Markwell, a recent Warden of Trinity College and now Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) at UWA, and I first heard about Professor Leeper from Alan Robson at UWA in the early 1970s. Thus, Professor Leeper was part of a long-standing connection between UWA and the University of Melbourne.