Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsUniversity administratorsHistoryBorn in 1920 in Moonee Ponds, Reeves studied Arts and Economics at the University 1940-1941, worked for Eddie Ward in the Post-war Reconstruction Department, was a researcher with the Brotherhood of St. Laurence, and from 1961 worked at the University of Melbourne, becoming Sub-Dean and Associate Dean in the Economics Faculty. Active throughout in A.L.P. and Socialist Left affairs, he managed election campaings and stood once, was a founder member of the Victorian Fabian Society (1947). He researched the history of the Outer Circle Railway, one of his favourite walking routes. He died in March 1994
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Reeves, John H.. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 31/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/60156