Malcolm John Leggoe Uren was an Australian journalist

Journalist

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 who edited the Western Mail

Western Mail (Western Australia)

The Western Mail, or Western Mail, was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia.-West Australian newspapers:...

 in Western Australia

Western Australia

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Early life

Uren was born on 7 January 1900 in West Hindmarsh

West Hindmarsh, South Australia

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, an inner-city suburb in Adelaide

Adelaide

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, South Australia

South Australia

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 to Malcolm Francis Uren and Millicent Jane Leggoe. The Uren family then moved to Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, the capital of Western Australia

Western Australia

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. Uren married Lenora Emily Olive Stradwick (Klenk) on 25 August 1923. They had a son, Malcolm Charles Uren (Bon) (1924 - 2002) and two grandchildren, Leslie (1948) and Malcolm John Spencer (1951 - 2004).

Career

Uren became a cadet journalist with the Perth-based Western Mail in 1920, and by 1941 was its editor.

Published works

• (1945) Sailormen's ghosts: the Abrolhos islands in three hundred years of romance, history, and adventure. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens.
• (1945) Waterless horizons: the first full-length study of the extraordinary life-story of Edward John Eyre, explorer, overlander and pastoralist in Australia. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens.
• (1948) Land Looking West: The story of Governor James Stirling in Western Australia. London: Oxford University Press.
• (1964) Edward John Eyre (Australian explorers). London: Oxford University Press.
• (1970) The City of Melville From Bushland to Expanding Metropolis. Melville City