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Name	Hugh Raymond McCrae
Born	4 October, 1876 Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	17 February, 1958 (aged 81) Wahroonga, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cultural Heritage	Scottish Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Adams, Annie Geraldine (wife) Brown, Janet le Brun (wife) McCrae, Augusta Helen (mother) McCrae, Helen Elizabeth (sister) Perry, Dorothy Frances (sister) Bligh, Winifred Gordon (sister) McCrae, Cecil Gordon (brother) Bligh, Erasmus Algernon (brother-in-law) McCrae, Andrew Murison (grandfather) Outhwaite, Margaret Isabella (cousin) Stewart, Douglas Alexander (related entry)
Education *	Hawthorn Grammar School (Melbourne) (student)
Occupation *	poet (1896-1901) Victoria, Australia poet (1901-1914) New South Wales, Australia actor (stage) (1916-1916) Victoria, Australia poet (1916-1922) Victoria, Australia public servant (1916-1918) Victoria, Australia poet (1922-1958) New South Wales, Australia
Awards	Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1953)

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