Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsJournalistsArt curatorsHistoryBorn in New Norfolk, Tasmania, he died in Lorne Victoria on 19 January 1979. He attended the University of Melbourne, where he failed in Medicine 1928-1930 but passed in 5 Arts subjects and edited "Farrago". He worked on the "Argus" 1933-1936, "The Times" and the "Western Mail" (U.K.) 1937-1938, on newspapers in North America 1938- 1940, and at radio stations in New Delhi and Singapore. In 1948 he took up the first of a number of Press appointments in Malaya, becoming the first Press Secretary, Prime Minister's Department, Federation of Malaya in April 1958. He was prominent in the establishment of the National Gallery in Kuala Lumpur.