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Name	Roy Robert Rawson
Born	11 May, 1898 Woods Point, Victoria, Australia
Died	14 June, 1971 (aged 73) Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (prostate)
Education *	Woods Point Primary School (Vic) (student, 1903-1909) Christian Brothers College (South Melbourne) (student, 1910-1916)
Occupation or Descriptor *	anti-conscriptionist (1916-1917) Victoria, Australia bookseller (1919-1971) Victoria, Australia esperantist (1925-1971) Victoria, Australia labour politician (1952-1958) Victoria, Australia Member of Upper House (1952-1958) Victoria, Australia
Key Organisations *	Australian Council for Civil Liberties (Vic) (member, ?-?) Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (Vic) (member, ?-1971) Left Book Club (Melbourne) (member, ?-?) Melbourne Esperanto Club (member, ?-?) Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria (member, ?-1971)
Political Activism *	ALP (Vic) (member, ?-1971) anti-conscriptionist (1916-1917)

* Dates are approximate

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