People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

12 May, 1913
Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia

Death

18 November, 1997 (aged 84)
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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.

• Anglican

Education

• Sydney Grammar School
• University of Sydney
• New College, Oxford
• Oxford University

Occupation

• academic
• air force officer
• industrial arbitrator/conciliator
• legal scholar
• solicitor

Military Service

• World War II

Awards

• Distinguished Flying Cross
• Harbison-Higinbotham research scholarship (University of Melbourne)
• Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Key Events

• Olympic Games (Berlin, 1936)

Groups

• Wongana Circle

Legacies

• John Portus Prize

Key Organisations

• League of Nations Union (SA)
• National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University
• Law Society of South Australia
• Industrial Relations Society (SA)
• Workers' Educational Association (SA)

Workplaces

• Gray's Inn, London
• Supreme Court of SA
• Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission
• University of Adelaide
• Cornell University (USA)