Frederick Stoward

Frederick Stoward (1866–14 December 1931) was the Government Botanist with the Department of Agriculture in Western Australia from 1911 to 1917.

He emigrated to Australia when he was about 15 years old, and was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Sydney.

He returned to England, studying under Adrian Brown at the University of Birmingham, where he gained his DSc.

Stoward specialised in fermentation and other chemical processes, publishing papers like On the Influence Exercised by certain Acids on the Inversion of Saccharose by Sucrase and On Endospermic Respiration in Certain Seeds.

He did, however, collect the type of Eucalyptus stowardii, which was named in Stoward's honour by Joseph Maiden in 1917.