Botanist (1897-1979).
Stephen Lackey Kessell (1897–1979), known as Kim Kessell, was a conservator of forests in Australia. Born 17 March 1897, Wollongong, New South Wales, Married 1924 at Christ Church, Claremont to Barbara Morton Sawell, a pharmacist who died in 1978. He died 29 June 1979 at Armadale, Melbourne, was cremated, and left property amounting to around half a million dollars. Kessell left military service in 1920 to serve under the beleaguered Conservator of forest, Charles Lane Poole, assuming his role after Poole resigned in October 1921 until his official appointment in January 1923; Kessell held th