People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

12 April, 1899
Glen Waverley, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Death

17 March, 1996 (aged 96)
Claremont, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Cause of Death

unknown

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Presbyterian

Education

• Melbourne High School
• Trinity College (University of Melbourne)
• University of Melbourne
• Oxford University

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• adult educator
• army officer
• autobiographer/memoirist
• historian (general)

Military Service

• World War II

Awards

• Rhodes Scholar
• Rockefeller Fellowship
• Carnegie scholarship
• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• Redmond Barry Award (Australian Library and Information Association)

Legacies

• Frederick Alexander building (WA)
• Frederick Alexander fellowship (University of Western Australia)
• Frederick Alexander lecture theatre (University of Western Australia)

Key Organisations

• Australian-American Association (federal)
• League of Nations Union (Perth)
• Oxford University Boy Emigration Movement
• Rockefeller Fellowship
• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• State Library of Western Australia
• Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust

Workplaces

• University of Western Australia (history)