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Liversidge was a founder member and moving spirit behind the establishment of the
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Honorary Fellow in 1991. He was made a Fellow of the South African Museums Association in 1996. Other awards were for Game Conservation in Cape Province (1976), a Merit Award from the Northern Cape Game Ranchers' Association (1990), a Lifetime Achiever Award from the Kimberley
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Liversidge's interest in history also ensured that what had been primarily a natural history museum came to be recognised, as significantly, for its humanities collections (with important holdings particularly of historical papers, photographs and textiles).
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Passionate about old buildings, Liversidge served on the
National Monuments Council for 14 years from 1977 and was a recipient of the Cape Times Centenary Medal (1990) for outstanding achievements in the conservation of historical buildings.
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He served also on the councils of the
Zoological Society of South Africa and the Wild Life Management Association. He had also been the last surviving founding member of the Cape Bird Club, the Western Cape branch of
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Liversidge was a long-time and valued member of the Rotary Club of Kimberley (part of the worldwide service organisation
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An inscribed stone is the centre-piece of the Richard Liversidge Memorial Garden at the McGregor Museum.
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