Coombs, Herbert Cole (Nugget) (1906–1997)
Biographical Entries
Related Entries in NCB Sites
- Coombs, Janet Viola (daughter)
- Hasluck, Paul Meernaa (friend)
- Woolley, Richard Van Der Riet (friend)
- Hasluck, Alexandra Margaret (friend)
- Fitzgerald, Thomas Michael (friend)
- Hohnen, Ross Ainsworth (classmate)
- Melville, Leslie Galfreid (work colleague)
- Wilson, Roland (work colleague)
- Bland, Henry (work colleague)
- Crawford, John Grenfell (work colleague)
- Phillips, John Grant (work colleague)
- Brown, Allen Stanley (work colleague)
- Wheeler, Frederick Henry (work colleague)
- Tange, Arthur Harold (work colleague)
- Hewitt, Cyrus Lenox (work colleague)
- Yeend, Geoffrey John (work colleague)
- Perkins, Charles Nelson (work colleague)
- Wilenski, Peter Stephen (work colleague)
- Chifley, Joseph Benedict (colleague)
- Potter, William Ian (colleague)
- Fenner, Frank Johannes (colleague)
- Harris, William Stewart (colleague)
- Oliphant, Marcus Laurence (acquaintance)
- Stead, Christina Ellen (acquaintance)
- Lorenz, Clarice Maude (acquaintance)
- Manning Ward, Barbara Berrima (acquaintance)
- Mabo, Edward Koiki (acquaintance)
- Grainger, Keith Elphinston (associate)
- McMeekin, Ivan Junior (related entry)
Herbert Coombs, n.d.
National Archives of Australia, M2153:4/27
Life Summary [details]
Birth
24 February,
1906
Kalamunda,
Western Australia,
Australia
Death
29 October,
1997
(aged 91)
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
Cultural Heritage
Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Education
- Perth Modern School
- Claremont Teachers College (Perth)
- University of Western Australia
- London School of Economics
Occupation
- central banker
- economist
- Indigenous rights activist/supporter
- public servant
- public service head
- schoolteacher
Awards
Key Events
Groups
Legacies
- Coombs (suburb, ACT)
- Coombs Building (ANU)
- H. C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship (ANU)
- H. C. Coombs Creative Arts Indigenous Fellowship (ANU)
Key Organisations
- Australian National University (administration)
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
- Australian Conservation Foundation
- Aboriginal Treaty Committee