Marjorie Tipping
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Marjorie Tipping MBE
(1917–2009) was an Australian historian and patron of community services.
Tipping's works focus on the history of art and colonial Australia, and include Eugene von Guerard's Australian Landscapes (1975) Ludwig Becker: Artist & Naturalist with the Burke & Wills Expedition (1978), Melbourne on the Yarra (1978) and Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia (1988).
Tipping was the first woman to earn the degree of Doctor of Letters by examination from the University of Melbourne, and was awarded an MBE.
Tipping has contribute to many community organisations, including as first woman president (from 1972) of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and as a patron (with Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and Governor of Victoria David de Kretser
) of EW Tipping Foundation
(a social justice and human rights organisation named for her late husband E W (Bill) Tipping
).
Tipping was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria
(1968) and appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (13 June 1981), for her contribution to the Arts.
MBE
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(1917–2009) was an Australian historian and patron of community services.
Tipping's works focus on the history of art and colonial Australia, and include Eugene von Guerard's Australian Landscapes (1975) Ludwig Becker: Artist & Naturalist with the Burke & Wills Expedition (1978), Melbourne on the Yarra (1978) and Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia (1988).
Tipping was the first woman to earn the degree of Doctor of Letters by examination from the University of Melbourne, and was awarded an MBE.
Tipping has contribute to many community organisations, including as first woman president (from 1972) of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and as a patron (with Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and Governor of Victoria David de Kretser
David de Kretser
David Morritz de Kretser, AC is an Australian medical researcher and a former Governor of Victoria from 2006 to 2011.-Biography:...
) of EW Tipping Foundation
EW Tipping Foundation
The EW Tipping Foundation is a not-for-profit community organisation based in Victoria, Australia.The Foundation provides community capital, infrastructure and services...
(a social justice and human rights organisation named for her late husband E W (Bill) Tipping
E W (Bill) Tipping
Edmond William Tipping was an Australian journalist, social commentator and activist.-Early life and family:"Bill" Tipping was born in Moonee Ponds, and attended St Kevin's College, Melbourne where he was school captain in 1933...
).
Tipping was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is a community organisation promoting the history of the state of Victoria, Australia. It functions to promote and research the history of that state after settlement, and as an umbrella organisation for more than 300 affiliated societies.It is operated by...
(1968) and appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (13 June 1981), for her contribution to the Arts.
External links
- http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0301b.htm