People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

9 November, 1914
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Death

13 August, 1995 (aged 80)
Texas, Queensland, Australia

Cause of Death

gastric ulcer

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.

• English

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.

• Methodist

Education

• Thornburgh College (Charters Towers, Qld)
• Wesley College (Perth)
• Prince Alfred College (Adelaide)
• University of Adelaide
• Australian National University

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• autobiographer/memoirist
• communist
• historian (general)
• schoolteacher
• soldier
• university administrator

Military Service

• World War II

Awards

• Member of the Order of Australia

Legacies

• Russel Ward Lecture (University of New England, Armidale)

Key Organisations

• Australian Academy of the Humanities

Political Activism

• Communist Party (NSW)

Workplaces

• Geelong Grammar School (Vic)
• Sydney Grammar School
• Telopea Park High School (ACT)
• University of New England (NSW)