AKA Charles Manning Hope Clark

Born: 3-Mar-1915
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 23-May-1991
Location of death: Canberra, Australia
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: A History of Australia

Father: Charles Clark (Anglican minister)
Mother: Catherine Hope
Wife: Hilma Dymphna Lodewyckx (m. 31-Jan-1939, six children)

    High School: Melbourne Grammar School
    University: Trinity College, University of Melbourne
    University: Balliol College, Oxford University
    University: MA, University of Melbourne (1944)
    Lecturer: University of Melbourne
    Professor: History, Cambridge University College (1949-60, school renamed)
    Professor: History, Australian National University (1960-72)

    Order of Australia 1975
    Australian of the Year 1980
    Risk Factors: Epilepsy

Author of books:
Select Documents in Australian History, 1788-1850 (1950)
Select Documents in Australian History, 1850-1900 (1955)
Sources of Australian History (1957)
Meeting Soviet Man (1960)
A History of Australia (1962-87, 6 vols.)
A Short History of Australia (1963)
Disquiet and Other Stories (1969)
In Search of Henry Lawson (1977)
The Puzzles of Childhood (1989, memoir)
The Quest for Grace (1990, memoir)
A Historian's Apprenticeship (1992, memoir)

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