Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsJournalistsGenderMaleHistoryFred Noble began his journalistic career with The Age on 18 September 1911 and retired from the paper in 1961. During his fifty years as a member os staff of The Age he reported on almost every sort of news published in that paper, including sport. According to The Age of 15 November 1978, the day after his death, 'He was regarded as the epitome of accuracy and a fount of knowledge on many subjects, but especially cricket, the Royal Melbourne Show and Gilbert and Sullivan'. With Robert Morgan, he was acknowledged as co-compiler of 'Speed the Plough: a history of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria and its role in developing agriculture in Victoria' for the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria, 1981. He was survived by his wife Nancy Noble.
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