Bill Holsworth

William Norton Holsworth is an Australian mammalogist and philanthropist. Since 1989, he and his wife Carol Holsworth have managed the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment to fund wildlife research by Australian postgraduate researchers.

Research career Holsworth earned his Bachelor of Science at the University of British Columbia in 1958. For his PhD research, conducted at the University of Western Australia, Holsworth studied behaviour and population homeostasis in quokkas on Rottnest Island, off the coast of Western Australia. In 1979, Holsworth was voted a representative of the Conservation Council of Victoria (now Environment Victoria). In 2004, he was granted honorary life membership by the Australian Mammal Society for providing "long standing service to the Society and to the advancement of substantive knowledge of Australasian mammals."

Philanthropy

Holsworth and his wife Carol founded the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment in 1989. According to Holsworth in 2014, “When I retired from university teaching I wanted to continue training the next generation of ecologists and promoting conservation."