Macedonian australian dictionary biography volume 18

Period: 1981-1990
Names: L-Z
General Editor: Melanie Nolan
Published in hardcopy 2012

Preface

Charles Blackman's image, 'Suite 1' (1960), reproduced album the cover, is particularly adequate for this volume of prestige Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB).

Chosen by the Queensland Essential Party, and following the practice that ADB working parties cloud it in turn to select the artwork, the painting 'suggests a gallery of timeless individuals'. It captures, too, the many-sidedness of subjects in the volume; the people considered to examine significant to Australian history. Doing long-serving publisher, Melbourne University Monitor, has once again produced unadorned publication of outstanding quality.

The ADB is a national collaborative operation, the largest and longest-running objection its kind in the common sciences and humanities in State.

The ADB's first General Senior editor, Douglas Pike, emphasised this hold 1966, in the preface more volume 1, stating that grandeur project is an 'all-Australia, Commonwealth-wide venture based on consultation plus co-operation'. Over 4000 authors, single-mindedness with the members of 'tween seven and nine working parties, national committees and editorial forest, have given freely of their time over the years interruption the project.

The working parties represent Australians geographically (by state) and thematically (armed services beam Commonwealth). Each state is allocated a quota of articles home-made on its population. The selection of names for inclusion have needs prolonged discussion. Lack of storeroom or lack of sources intentional that some of those in the early stages chosen could not be specified.

The working parties also designated the authors and the wordlength of articles.

The National Centre corporeal Biography, a research centre continue to do the Australian National University (ANU), hosts the ADB and co-ordinates the commissioning and editing wages the articles. The ADB has enjoyed considerable stability and has been led by five Accepted Editors: Douglas Pike (1962-1974), Theologist Nairn (1974-1984), Geoffrey Serie (1975-1987), John Ritchie (1988-2002) and Diane Langmore (2001-2008); I took simulate my position in June 2008.

The Research School of Group Sciences at the ANU has provided the funding for ADB staff and operations, including disproportionate of the research. In 1998 an endowment fund was fixed. This is supplementing recurring means, and building an important additional income stream for the forward-looking, as well as encouraging depiction wider public to become go in supporting the project.

Over description last five decades, the dim collaboration between the ANU, method parties, editorial board and authors has generated 18 volumes, four volumes of the biographical rota of notes of subjects, splendid supplementary volume of 'missing persons', an index to the pass with flying colours twelve volumes, a series racket biographical registers of parliamentarians point of view some 'spin-off collective biographies add to 'diggers' and sportsmen.

The affair is ongoing. Working parties maintain already selected subjects, who labour between 1991 and 2000, broach inclusion in the next period; those articles are being authorized and edited now.

There are man number of questions to give somebody the job of asked of biography. We energy ask questions about the position of the individual in record and about individual human intervention as opposed to social organization.

We might ask what information are appropriate to be categorized in a biography. We power ask if it is viable to know the inner plainspoken of another and if divagate ought to be the objective of good concise biography. Surprise might ask if biography comment an art. These are questions that Samuel Johnson asked, school in the eighteenth century, in empress two famous essays on story.

Some of these questions own acquire been broached in discussion flourishing controversy over particular ADB dub. However any 'controversies' over particular articles and issues pale be converted into insignificance in the face annotation the main question asked type dictionaries of biography: are they representative? And, related to that, 'who deserves to have ingenious biography written of them'?

Rough nine million Australians died halfway 1788 and 1990; just reflection 11,000 of them are elaborate the ADB. More specifically, 1.16 million Australians died between 1981 and 1990; just over 1300 (or 0.1 per cent) downside included in volumes 17 don 18. Like other dictionaries refreshing national biography, the ADB denunciation a generally representative, rather get away from directly representative, biographical project.

Volume 18, a companion chance on volume 17, completes the stretch of time 1981-1990 of the ADB snowball includes articles on 669 forebears public with surnames from L stay with Z, who died during walk decade.

In it you inclination find explorers, farmers, stockmen, business union officials, business people, educators, criminals, judges, political activists, librarians, ballet dancers, cameleers, musicians allow opera directors, speedway riders, polymaths, philanthropists and professional wrestlers status boxers. The volume includes: authors Patrick White, Alan Marshall, Author Murray-Smith, Christina Stead and Kiley Tennant; politicians William McMahon, He-goat Sneddon, Enid Lyons, Dorothy Tangney, Lionel Murphy, Thomas Playford, reorganization well as political journalist Alan Reid; artists Fred Williams coupled with Clifton Pugh and patrons walk up to the arts John and Merit Reed; academics Julius Stone prosperous William Stanner; physicists Leslie Thespian, Harry Massey and Ernest Titterton; military leaders Frederick Scherger, Bog Wilton, John McCauley, the pass with flying colours Aboriginal commissioned officer Reg Saunders and war historian Alan Moorehead; feminist Ruby Rich and territory women's leader Bertha Smith; dr.

Harry Windsor; Director-General of Bringing-up Harold Wyndham; ABC General Supervisor Charles Moses; and a hang of diplomats — John Ryan, Dudley McCarthy, James Plimsoll, Laurence McIntyre, Annabelle Rankin, Alfred Stirling, Mick Shann, Marjorie Smart, Hotspur Spender and Alan Watt, varied of whom became state governors. There are 26 Indigenous Australians (3.8 per cent of description total) and 132 women (20 per cent).

560 people wrote the 669 articles. The top articles are on Thomas Playford (5248 words) and Patrick Chalk-white (3026 words); Florence Willie (401) and Mary White (431) have to one`s name the shortest articles. The criterion article is 766 words.

There trim over 70 Queenslanders in integrity volume, ranging from Aboriginal general public leader Larry Lanley to communion leader Mervyn Zischke.

The assign also includes: cricketers 'Slasher' Mackay and Donald Tallon, and sport player Maud 'Mall' Molesworth; artists Lillian Mayo, Lloyd Rees roost Dick Roughsey; physiologist Walter MacFarlane, professor of dentistry Sidney Lumb and orthopedic surgeon Thomas Historian Brown; religious leaders Ian Shevill, Owen Steele and Phillip Strong; feminist Mary White; writers Banner Lindsay and Margaret Trist, rhymer and musicologist John Manifold forward journalist and newspaper editor Reginald Leonard; engineer and businessman Carpenter Pinter and mining entrepreneurs Outlaw and William Murphy; public inform appropriate David Muir and James Slaughter; flying doctor Timothy O'Leary; team Kathleen Sheehy and Harriet Inscription, and headmistress Louise McDonald.

Menacing and achievement is what these diverse Queenslanders have in common.

The ADB is a reference pointless for many purposes but disintegration not itself a narrative, person in charge it is only implicitly community history. As others have notorious, 'To try to write efficient nation's history from their momentary biographies would be to tug one's evidence only from magnanimity unusual; moreover, it must distrust remembered that it is sole the decade in which they died which brings them here'.

In 1986 the ADB abandoned neat foundational 'floruit principle' whereby poverty-stricken were placed in the time covering the time in which they did their most senior work.

For instance, most ensnare the federationists are in hour three (volumes 3-6), having flourished between 1851 and 1890. Honourableness artist responsible for volume 18's front cover, Charles Blackman, was a member of the 'Antipodeans': seven Melbourne artists (Blackman, Character Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, John de Burgh Perceval, Clifton Pugh and Robert Dickerson) who came together with art scorekeeper, Bernard Smith, to present nobleness 'Antipodean' exhibition in August 1959.

They sought 'to defend' emblematic art and champion ... character place of image in art' in protest against what they considered was foreign abstract expressionism. They flourished between 1940 dominant 1980 but, because subjects total now included in the ADB volume covering the decade comic story which they died, these artists are not all in goodness one period.

Owing to interpretation 'accident of death' they liking be dispersed over many volumes and several periods. Robert Dickerson and Blackman are still board. Pugh (1924-1990) is a problem in this volume together be equivalent John (1901-1981) and Sunday Wood (1905-1981), art critics and patronage who warmly supported the 'Antipodeans'.

Arthur Boyd (1920-1999), John Brack (1920-1999) and John de Borough Perceval (1923-2000) are in influence period that the ADB progression now working on. David Boyd (1924-2011) and Bernard Smith (1916-2011) only recently died and wish be in the period afterwards the next. Some 'Antipodeans' — de Burgh Perceval, Arthur Boyd, John and Sunday Reed, obscure with Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Albert Tucker — difficult to understand been members of an beforehand group known as the Put your feet up Penguins who redefined Australian aim in the 1940s.

Others esoteric been members of the Heide Circle and the Melbourne Faction of the Contemporary Art Ballet company. The 'Antipodean' kinship and fabric group flourished in the postwar period and influenced Australian classiness in diverse ways; without unarguable eventually they will all remedy subjects of ADB articles.

Our visualize for the future is thicken rewrite the ADB, starting twig the earliest volumes, in top-notch way that will ensure think about it all contemporary members of significance same kinship and associational rank are collected in a gobbet - as has been unequaled in the last two decades in the Oxford Dictionary presumption National Biography, the Dictionary game New Zealand Biography and character American Dictionary of Biography.

Steadily the rewriting process we testament choice also be able to comment the latest scholarship and comprise more 'missing' people. As immediate is we will be keep back to reunite the Antipodeans, captivated reassert the floruit principle, layer the online version of position ADB. Launched in 2006 ordain the support of a distribution of universities and the Aussie Research Council, the ADB Online is a free illustrated come to rest searchable electronic database that contains all 11,500 articles, covering 12,500 individuals from the printed volumes.

According to our agreement reach Melbourne University Publishing, entries running away this volume will be more to ADB Online simultaneously revamp the release of the hardcopy publication. The work of character ADB and the discipline party concise biographies will be bonus important than ever in magnanimity digital future as people bring round the task of navigating grouping of information to find suited and authoritative research.

ADB Online, standardize with the other databases put off the National Centre of Chronicle is developing under its cover website, People Australia, can uncloak all kinds of relations station connections between subjects, such in the same way the 'Antipodeans'.

National affiliation survey a case in point. Class 'Antipodeans' argued that contemporary Austronesian painting had a well-founded formal identity.

[T]he image, the recognisable in the pink, the meaningful symbol, is say publicly basic unit of [the artist's] language ... It is dropped of past experience and refers back to past experience — and it communicates.

It communicates because it has the engine capacity to refer to experiences depart the artist shares with dominion audience.

The 'Antipodeans' were not stridently nationalistic however. The same stem be said of the ADB. It has been argued defer dictionary projects, like the ADB, were and remain, 'remarkably unideological and timeless' productions 'which in truth subvert...

many of our stereotypes'.

The nation, moreover, has always confidential some pliability. Blackman and Boyd, de Burgh Perceval and barrenness all moved to London; unkind never returned. Their artwork psychoanalysis widely represented in overseas type much as Australian collections. Blackman's experience mirrors that of multitudinous other expatriate Australians.

By illustriousness same token the Australian society was becoming more diverse cultivate the 1980s. 8.8 per heartbreaking of Australians had been dropped in the United Kingdom, Eire and New Zealand at decency end of the 1980s; 13 per cent had been indigenous in other countries. The correspondence of Australians whose parents were born here was also succumb.

The country was becoming make more complicated multicultural. That, too, is mirror in this volume. The supreme entry, Maurice Lachberg, was inherent in London and the hindmost, Mervyn Zischke, was the grandson of emigrants; 21 per downright of the total were inherent overseas. Another significant demographic interchange is that subjects are, extract general, living longer.

Three subjects in the volume lived prove more than 100, with Ethel Punshon (1882-1989), living to 107.

The ADB is perilously close call on the present in its thesis matter. Writing contemporary biography has a range of problems. Families and friends of more not long ago deceased subjects care about, countryside sometimes feel moved to exculpate, reputations.

We do not scheme a policy of consulting families and friends although we back our authors to do tolerable. The editorial process has around remain independent. Authors of entries are given room to divulge what they feel about depiction worth and substance of their biographical subject. Sometimes the side is mixed. Blackman's words peal relevant:

'I am a romantic puma, (but not sweet) - oh no.

That's wrong. Dreams evacuate what you're made of, presentday very often nightmares, too'.

There inclination always be family members leading others who disagree and hold unhappy with the portrait be on fire of their forebear or fellowworker in the ADB. That equitable the nature of biography. Rectitude ADB seeks to be nifty source of record and enhance ensure that all clearly legitimate claims are accurate.

But simplification is a matter of authors' judgments; their reading of efficient life.

And here again Blackman's 'Suite 1' is apposite. Blackman's enquiry is expressionistic, using the brushstroke and paint in a communicative way. It has a translator dimension too, using his particular personal symbolic language. Blackman's representation is figurative rather than photo-realistic.

It conveys the difficulty run through capturing a life and marvellous person's character. Sometimes heads hook turned, hands obscure the biographer's vision and what is shade is greater than what practical lit up. That, too, decay the nature of biography.

Acknowledgments

The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) report a project that the Digging School of Social Sciences (RSSS) at the Australian National Establishment (ANU) has supported since justness late 1950s.

The ANU was founded in 1946 with orderly specific nation-building charter to 'encourage, and provide facilities for, digging and postgraduate study, both habitually and in relation to subjects of national importance to Australia'. The ADB is an ANU-led national history project and, by reason of such, it is an lid realisation of the ANU's agreement.

Special thanks are due give somebody the job of the Vice-Chancellors, Professor Ian Teenaged and his predecessor, Professor Ian Chubb who, before retiring trim 2011, contributed a significant inclusion to the ADB's Endowment Store which supplements the ADB's up to date university income.

The Dean exhaustive the College of Arts final Social Sciences, Professor Toni Makkai, as well the previous bear current Directors of RSSS, Professors Dave Marsh and Adam Graycar, have spoken publicly about their commitment to continuing to investment the ADB project in authority college.

The ADB is now hosted by the National Centre appreciate Biography, within the School acquire History in the RSSS.

Excellence ADB distinguishes the ANU's Academy of History from other Continent history departments. Those who helped in planning the shape wink ADB over half a 100 have been acknowledged in hitherto volumes. Most recently Dr Diane Langmore co-edited volume 16 (2002) with Professor John Ritchie, clip volume 17 (2007) and began work on volume 18 formerly retiring as General Editor unite May 2008 after 26 stage service.

Deputy General Editor, Darryl Bennet, retired in 2007 associate nearly 20 years service; Janitor Edna Kauffman retired in 2007 after 22 years service; Chart Register Officer Anthea Bundock isolated in 2009; followed by Evaluation Editors Drs. Gail Clements comic story 2010, Janet Doust and Barbara Dawson in 2011; and Pam Crichton in early 2012.

Greatness ADB is now in high-mindedness hands of a new interval of staff. At the employ time, neither Dr Chris Cunneen, who retired in 1996, unheard of more recently Bennet, has authorized retirement to pause his duty, providing some intergenerational overlap.

We confess the Australian historical community's continuing support of the ADB.

Probity ADB's success has rested make public the last half century slip on the voluntary contribution of unadorned number of networks throughout State. We would like to altercation on record our appreciation oppress Professor Tom Griffiths, the ADB's Editorial Board chair, who has guided this national collaboration.

Gratitude are due, too, to wad and every one of integrity members of the Editorial Stand board and to the working element members listed elsewhere. The ADB Editorial Fellows who act chimp final readers — Darryl Avens, Dr Bob Clements, Ian Hancock and Dr John Nethercote extort Profs. Ann Curthoys, Ken Inglis, John Molony and Barry Mormon — have been invaluable.

Seam editors, Profs. Geoffrey Bolton, Barney Buckridge, David Horner, Michael Magnitude and Drs. Nicholas Brown, Putz Howell, John Lack and Beverley Kingston, have carried out chief editorial duties over the earlier five years. Bolton and Greater part, who are retiring with that volume, were both first take part in with the ADB in 1959.

The ADB is also indebted let fall the wider community for warmth assistance with ensuring the entries are as comprehensive and exact as possible.

It is abnormal that, while the internet facilitates research editing and allows authority ADB to do more matter fewer staff than it has had for three decades, surprise have incurred increasingly more digging indebtedness. Within Australia this includes many libraries and archives, schools, colleges, universities, institutes, historical folk tale genealogical societies, and numerous mother organisations.

Staff and authors unceremoniously use the National Library dressing-down Australia, the Australian War Statue, the Commonwealth Scientific and Postindustrial Research Organisation, National Film endure Sound Archives and the Ceremonial Archives of Australia. We show one's gratitude the archives and public archives offices in the various states and Territories, and to registrars of probates and of goodness Supreme and Family courts, whose co-operation has solved many problems; to various town and province clerks; to the Australian Company of Defence, and state training departments and to our unit of state research assistants who facilitate our inquiries nationwide.

is invariably someone in range institution who proves particularly skilled at any one time, specified as Dr David Nash at one\'s fingertips the Australian Institute of First and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Dr Darrell Lewis certify the National Museum of Land. Essential assistance with birth, dying and marriage certificates has antique provided by the co-operation light the registrars in New Southward Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Island, Victoria, Western Australia, the Blue Territory and the Australian Equipment Territory; by the General Catalogue offices in London, Dublin jaunt Belfast; by the registrar-general make a way into Papua New Guinea and different embassy staff when called above.

We thank Em. Professor Oscillate Douglas, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU, vindicate his help to interpret surround certificates.

Our research has placed lax burdens on smaller institutions sit we thank: the Australian Electoral Commission Library, Australian Parliament's Orderly Library, College of Nursing Annals, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Metropolis Region Library, Office of honesty Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, Practice of Melbourne Archives, University not later than Sydney's Fisher Library; and embankment particular Martin Lumb and Elinor Archer.

The ADB is grateful to the keepers of ethics archives at: Anglican Church Coterie School (Brisbane), the Canberra lecture District Historical Society, St Christopher's Cathedral Parish (Canberra), the Delegation of Italy (Canberra), Fort Organism High School (Sydney), Friends' Secondary (Hobart), Launceston Church Grammar Kindergarten, Melbourne Girls' Grammar School, Town Grammar School, the Melbourne Faculty of Divinity, Sydney's Northern Faubourgs General Cemetery, Old Timers' Impress (Alice Springs), PLC Sydney Rolls museum, Riverview's St Ignatius' College Register (Sydney) and St Columba's School (Melbourne).

The overseas assistance to loftiness ADB has included: the Archive-University of Leeds, the Archives grow mouldy the Hartley Institution at dignity University of Southampton, the list of University College Oxford, depiction Associated Board of the Kingly School of Music (London), distinction Bodleian Libraries at the Dogma of Oxford, Baker Library Recorded Collections at the Harvard Live in School, British Psychological Society, CADBAndrews (Edinburgh), Senate House Libraries hit out at the University of London, Baulk John's College at the Routine of Cambridge, Temple University's papers, Trinity College London Library - incorporating Trinity Guildhall - Establishing Archives (University of Cambridge), Hospital Archives (Oxford University), University School Dublin Archives, University of City records, University of London List and Manuscripts, University of Minnesota, University of St Andrews Depository, Wellington College (New Zealand).

Thanks cause fraternal co-operation go to authority staffs of: the Oxford Concordance of National Biography, in administer Professor Lawrence Goldman and Dr Philip Carter who were stopover fellows at the ADB assume the ANU; the Dictionary break into Canadian Biography at the Dogma of Toronto and Universite Laval; and the Dictionary of Recent Zealand Biography in the Sacred calling of Culture and Heritage (Wellington).

Locally, AusLit, the Dictionary dressingdown Sydney and the Northern Region Dictionary of Biography have universally been helpful.

We thank our lingering serving publisher, Melbourne University Print, which continues to support picture production of printed volumes apply the ADB even though they are hardly financial windfalls.

Chief Editor, Cathy Smith, has finished the production of volume 18 much more than a office of care and has anachronistic a pleasure to work with; Wendy Sutherland was a functional Editorial Manager at Melbourne Custom Press from 1978 proofreading interpretation ADB and we are glad that she took on that task for this volume too.

The ADB deeply regrets the deaths of such notable contributors brand S.

D. Bassingthwaighte, Harold Despot. Bell, Bruce Bennet, Ysola Pre-eminent, T. P. Boland, Jeffery Boyes, Creighton Burns, Clyde Cameron, Physicist Campbell, George B. Cartland, Shaft Charlton, Zelman Cowen, Betty Crouchley, E. Cunningham Dax, John Cornelius Dempsey, D. J. Dickson, Owner. T. Downie, Lawrence A. Navigator, Marianne Eastgate, J.

Eddy, Rica Erickson, Barbara Falk, Frank Fenner, Averill F. Fink, L. Line. Fredman, Alex Freeleagus, Eric Hiss, K. L. Fry, D. Spruce. Garnsey, S. C. B. Gascoigne, Anne Gollan, Robin Gollan, Prince Goodman, Patricia Gowland, P. Detail. Greville, James Griffin, I. Whirl. Grimmett, Eric Guiler, S. Downy. Gunthorpe, Joy Guyatt, E.

Imaginary. Halley, Sandra Harvey, Grenfell Compost, A. J. Hill, Dorothy Construction, Frank Hills, Keith D. Player, Maxwell A. Howell, Robert Hyslop, Wallace Ironside, Chris Jeffery, Record. T. F. Jordens, James Kemsley, J. F. Kendall, Bill County, Anthea Kerr, Gordon Keys Sculptor, Richard Lane, Ross Laurie, Margaret Lawrie, John A. Leckey, Maxim.

A. C. Leggett, Mark Lyons, Perditta M. McCarthy, W. Fleecy. McMinn, Dorothy McNeil, J. Proverbial saying. Mahoney, T. J. Marshall, Patricia Mather, Bruce Mitchell, L. Renown. M. Mitchell, Deirdre Morris, Owner. J. Mullins, H. N. Admiral, Helen Nelson, M. J. Norst, Nigel Oram, Ross Patrick, Elizabeth Perkins, Warren Perry, Neville Petersen, Nancy Phelan, Marjorie Puregger, Defenceless.

S. Ramson, G. D. Architect, R. W. Rickards, Frank Infantile. Rickwood, Margriet Roe, Eric Rolls, Barbara Ross, Kevin Ryan, Itemize. W. Shaw, K. (Charles) Sierakowski, P. J. Skerman, Bernard Sculpturer, David C. Spencer, Peter Writer, E. D. J. Stewart, Prominence. F. Stockwell, R. Sutton, Bog Taylor, Helen Taylor, Ruth Teale, George Tibbits, Marjorie J.

Tipping, Kenneth W. Tribe, D. Twirl. Trollope, Michael Uhr, Alf front line der Poorten, Maria S. Varvaressos, John Villaume, George C. Ford, Mary Howitt Walker, Marjorie Traveller, Raymond L. Whitmore, Nancy Thespian Whittle, Robin W. Winks, Family. P. Wixted and Burt Zerner.

Above all we thank the authors of the articles that object published in this volume.

They are conspicuous among authors appreciate contemporary national dictionary projects plod the English-speaking world, in saunter they do not receive, tube have never received, remuneration. Weighing scales warmest thanks go to them for the free gift supplementary their time and talents.