Biographical entry Behan, John Clifford Valentine (1881 - 1957)

Sir

Born: 8 May 1881
Footscray, Victoria, Australia
Died: 30 September 1957
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Lawyer and University College Warden
Summary: BA, LLB, BA Oxford, BCL.
University of Melbourne, Wyselaskie Scholarship for English Constitutional History (equal) 1901.
University of Melbourne, Wyselaskie Scholarship in Political Economy 1902.
Trinity College, resident from c.1897 to c.1904
Victoria's first Rhodes Scholar 1904.
Trinity College, Warden from 1918 to 1946.

1895: Education - Caulfield Grammar School
1896: Education - University High School
c. 1897 - c. 1904: Trinity College - Resident
1901: University of Melbourne - Wyselaskie Scholarship for English Constitutional History
1902: University of Melbourne - University of Melbourne, Wyselaskie Scholarship in Political Economy
1907: Life Event - Marriage to Greta Caldwell, Brighton
1907: Scholarships - Rhodes Scholar
1909: Scholarships - Stowell Civil Law Fellowship, University Coleleg Oxford
c. 1912: Occupation - Lecturer in law at University College, Oxford
1918 - 1946: Occupation - Warden, Trinity College
1921 - 1952: Public Life - secretary to the Rhodes Trust in Australia
1949: Honours - Knighted

Mr J C V Behan (Bridgroom) First Victorian Rhodes Schoalr, Punch, 8 August 1907, 27 pp, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/rendition/nla.news-article175796031.3.pdf?followup=7042e3ba4d49517f19045a82de58b746. Details
Shaw, A G L, Behan, Sir John Clifford Valentine (1881-1957), Australian Dictonary of Biography, National Centre for Biography, Australian National University, 1979, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/behan-sir-john-clifford-valentine-5185. Details

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