White, Patrick Victor (Paddy) (1912–1990)
Biographical Entries
Related Entries in NCB Sites
- Lascaris, Manoly (partner)
- White, Ruth (mother)
- White, Victor Martindale (father)
- Peck, Suzanne Victoria M. (sister)
- Grigson, Mary Sarah (aunt)
- White, Arthur George (aunt)
- White, Francis John (uncle)
- White, James Cobb (uncle)
- White, Walter George (uncle)
- White, Henry Luke (uncle)
- White, William Ernest (uncle)
- White, Arthur George (uncle)
- Withycombe, Ralph (uncle)
- Withycombe, Baby (uncle)
- Withycombe, Clement James (uncle)
- White, Margaret (aunt by marriage)
- White, Emmaline Eliza (aunt by marriage)
- White, Louisa Maude (aunt by marriage)
- White, Milicent (aunt by marriage)
- Withycombe, Florence Dangar (aunt by marriage)
- Grigson, Robert Edward (uncle by marriage)
- White, Mary Hannah B. (grandmother)
- Withycombe, Winifred Jane (grandmother)
- White, Francis John (grandfather)
- Withycombe, James (grandfather)
- White, Frances Mary (cousin)
- White, Ruth (cousin)
- White, Harold Fletcher (cousin)
- White, Elsie Fletcher (cousin)
- White, James (cousin)
- Black, Joan Fletcher (cousin)
- Dutton, Jessie (cousin)
- Cullen, Frieda Fletcher (cousin)
- Grigson, Samuel (cousin)
- White, Bruce (cousin)
- White, Frank Fletcher (cousin)
- Minell, Dorothy Ebsworth (cousin)
- Keys, Mary Joyce (cousin)
- Grigson, Max White (cousin)
- White, Doris Fletcher (cousin)
- White, Alan (cousin)
- Hordern, Norah Ebsworth (cousin)
- Wynne, Richard Owen (cousin)
- Wynne, Dulcie Mirian (cousin)
- Grigson, Sydney Mark (cousin)
- White, Alfred Henry E. (cousin)
- Grigson, Arthur Edward (cousin)
- Withycombe, Jack Cook (cousin)
- Withycombe, Peggy Elizabeth (cousin)
- de Maistre, LeRoy Leveson (lover)
- Riddell, Elizabeth Richmond (friend)
- Tennant, Kathleen (friend)
- Harrower, Elizabeth (friend)
- Tasker, John Howard (friend)
- Caldwell, Zoe Ada (friend)
- Stow, Julian Randolph (friend)
- Stead, Christina Ellen (colleague)
- Pannell, Nita Veronica (colleague)
- Bryant, Beryl Annear (acquaintance)
- Dekyvere, Nola Laird (acquaintance)
- Hope, Alec Derwent (acquaintance)
- Nolan, Sidney Robert (associate)
- Fraser, Eliza Anne (subject)
- Murphy, Herbert Dyce (subject)
- Arrighi, Eleanor Douglas (related entry)
- Martin, David (related entry)
- Meagher, Roderick Pitt (related entry)
Patrick White, by Brendan Hennessy, 1984
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an7568636
Life Summary [details]
Birth
28 May,
1912
Knightsbridge, London,
Middlesex,
England
Death
30 September,
1990
(aged 78)
Centennial Park, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
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.
Education
- Cranbrook School (Sydney)
- Tudor House (Moss Vale, NSW)
- Cheltenham College (England)
- Cambridge University (UK)
Occupation or Descriptor
- defence forces personnel (British)
- farmer
- Indigenous rights activist/supporter
- novelist
- playwright
- poet
- political activist
- short story writer
Military Service
Awards
- Gold Medal (Australian Literature Society)
- Miles Franklin Literary Award
- Australian of the Year
- Nobel Prize for Literature
- Companion of the Order of Australia