People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

8 November, 1926
Auckland, New Zealand

Death

25 January, 1999 (aged 72)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Cause of Death

cancer (not specified)

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.

• New Zealander

Education

• Brooklyn School (Wellington, NZ)
• Wellington College (NZ)
• Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
• Université de Paris (France)
• École nationale des chartes (Paris, France)
• École pratique des hautes études (Paris, France)
• Oxford University
• St Catherine's College, Oxford

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• schoolteacher

Awards

• Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem
• Officer of the Order of Australia
• Commandeur de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France)

Key Organisations

• Alliance Française de Canberra
• University House (ANU)
• Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association
• Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS)
• Australian Unesco Committee for Libraries

Workplaces

• St Catherine's College, Oxford
• Lycée Montaigne, Paris
• Australian National University (French)
• University of Sydney (French)
• University of Connecticut
• James Cook University (modern languages)
• James Cook University
• James Cook University (academic board)