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Name	Francis Barrymore Smith
Born	16 May, 1932 Hughesdale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	3 March, 2015 (aged 82) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Education *	Dandenong High School (Vic) (student, ?-1949) University of Melbourne (student, 1953-1958) Cambridge University (UK) (student, 1959-1961)
Occupation or Descriptor *	academic (1962-1966) Victoria, Australia historian (general) (1962-1966) Victoria, Australia academic (1966-1997) Australian Capital Territory, Australia historian (general) (1966-2014) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Key Organisations *	Australian Academy of the Humanities (honorary secretary) Australian Dictionary of Biography (ANU) (author, 1964-1988) Australian Academy of the Humanities (fellow, 1971-2015)
Workplaces *	University of Melbourne (history) (academic, 1962-1966) Australian National University (history) (academic, 1966-1997) Australian National University (Research School of Social Sciences) (academic, 1966-1997) Australian National University (history) (emeritus professor, 1997-2013) Australian National University (Research School of Social Sciences) (emeritus professor, 1997-2013)

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