People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

27 May, 1917
Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland

Death

28 December, 1994 (aged 77)
Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

cancer (kidney)

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.

• Scottish

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
• Uniting

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• economist
• social welfare analyst

Awards

• Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
• Officer of the Order of Australia

Key Events

• Commission of Inquiry into Poverty (1972-75)

Legacies

• Ronald Henderson chair (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research)
• Ronald Henderson Foundation (University of Melbourne)

Key Organisations

• Brotherhood of St Laurence (Vic)
• Victorian Council of Social Service
• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

Workplaces

• Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (University of Melbourne)