Clement Wragge is sometimes remembered as the colourful and combative Australasian meteorologist whose use of people’s names to nickname cyclones and storms in the 1890s caught on around the world.
Described at the height of his career as Australia’s most famous man and also, derisively, as ‘The Rain God’, ‘Inclement’ Wragge set standards for a national weather service, pioneered long-range forecasting, and campaigned against massive land-clearing, fearing this assault on natu...
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Ifirst met Ian Frazer more than ten years ago, when he visited Staffordshire to see for himself where Clement Wragge spent his orphaned early years with his beloved gra...
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