Biographical entry Mills, Richard Charles (1886 - 1952)

Dr. Professor, OBE

Born: 8 March 1886
Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
Died: 6 October 1952
Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Academic, Economist and Educationalist
Summary: LLB, LLM, DSc (LSE), OBE.
University of Melbourne, Wyselaskie scholarship in English Constitutional History 1906.
University of Melbourne, Wyselaskie scholarship in Political Economy 1907.
University of Melbourne, Harbison Higinbotham Research Scholarship 1915
Queens College Resident from c.1906 to c.1915.

c. 1903: Education - Wesley College
1904: Education - University High School
c. 1906 - c. 1915: Queens College - Resident
1907: University of Melbourne - University of Melbourne, Wyselaskie scholarship in Political Economy
1909 - 1911: Occupation - Tutor Queens College
1911: Occupation - Lecturer in constitutional history, law, Roman law and jurisprudence
1912 - 1915: Education - London School of Economics and Political Science
1915: Scholarships - Harbison Higinbotham Research Scholarship
December 1915 - 17 February 1919: Military - France & Belguim
1916: Life Event - Married Helen Elizabeth Crawford at Ballymena, Antrim, Ireland
1921: Occupation - Lecturer in economics and commerce at the University of Sydney
1922 - 1945: Occupation - Professor & Dean economics and commerce at the University of Sydney
1936: Honours - OBE
1945: Occupation - Chairman of the Universities Commission and director of the new Commonwealth Office of Education

District News, Heyfield, Maffra Spectator, 2 February 1903, 3 pp, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/rendition/nla.news-article67421099.3.pdf?followup=bf80953e38af0a063b31dec4236db80e. Details
Groenewegen, P D, Mills, Richard Charles (1886-1952), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre for Biography, Australian National University, 1986, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mills-richard-charles-7593. Details

Created: 13 December 2018