Hugh Stretton
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Hugh Stretton AC
(born 15 July 1924) is an Australia
n historian
and professor
. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne
, the University of Melbourne
, the University of Oxford
and Princeton University
. He has been voted one of Australia's ten most influential public intellectuals
He taught modern history and economics but has written chiefly about town planning, housing policies, and social scientists’ ways of explaining complex historical processes.
He was the deputy chair of the South Australian Housing Trust
for 17 years. He currently resides in Adelaide, Australia.
A portrait of Hugh Stretton by Australian artist Robert Hannaford
won the Peoples Choice Award in the 1991 Archibald Prize
.
Order of Australia
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(born 15 July 1924) is an Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne
Scotch College, Melbourne
Scotch College, Melbourne is an independent, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....
, the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
, the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
and Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He has been voted one of Australia's ten most influential public intellectuals
He taught modern history and economics but has written chiefly about town planning, housing policies, and social scientists’ ways of explaining complex historical processes.
He was the deputy chair of the South Australian Housing Trust
South Australian Housing Trust
The South Australian Housing Trust was a statutory authority established by the of the Government of South Australia responsible for providing low-cost rental housing to working people and their families.-History:...
for 17 years. He currently resides in Adelaide, Australia.
A portrait of Hugh Stretton by Australian artist Robert Hannaford
Robert Hannaford
Robert Lyall Hannaford , is an Australian realist artist.Known as Alfie, Hannaford was born and grew up on his family farm in Riverton, South Australia....
won the Peoples Choice Award in the 1991 Archibald Prize
Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...
.