People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

6 August, 1906
Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia

Death

24 November, 1991 (aged 85)
Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

heart disease

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

• Bexley Public School (Sydney)
• Sydney Boys' High School
• University of Sydney
• Oxford University

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• civil libertarian
• historian (general)
• schoolteacher

Awards

• Woolley Scholarship
• Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Legacies

• Max Crawford Chair of History (University of Melbourne)

Key Organisations

• Australian Council for Civil Liberties
• Historical Studies Australia and New Zealand
• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• Australian Academy of the Humanities

Workplaces

• Sydney Grammar School
• University of Sydney (history)
• University of Melbourne (history)