Person

Priestley, Raymond Edward (1886 - 1974)

Born
20 July 1886
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
Died
24 June 1974
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Occupation
Geologist, Vice-Chancellor and Antarctic explorer

Summary

Sir Raymond Priestley left an academic and administrative career at Cambridge University to accompany Shackleton and Scott on their Antarctic expeditions 1907-1913. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne until 1938 and then returned to the U.K.

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Chronology

1935
Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

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Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Raymond Edward Priestley - Records, 1935 - 1974; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Hooper, Meredith, The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes (London: John Murray, 2010), 358 pp. Details
  • Priestley, Raymond, The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor: University of Melbourne 1935-1938 (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2002), 555 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Murray-Smith, S., 'Priestley, Sir Raymond Edward (1886-1974), Scientist and Vice-Chancellor' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 295-296. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110303b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Raymond Edward Priestley', Uni News, 12 (16) (2003), 4. Details
  • Priestley, R. E., 'Sir Edgeworth David', Australian Quarterly, 10 (2) (1938), 34-39. Details
  • Quilty, Patrick G., 'Laying the foundation: Early Australian Earth Scientists in the Antarctic, Part 1', TAG: Geological Society of Australia Newsletter, 160 (2011), 24-6. Details
  • Quilty, Patrick G., 'Laying the Foundation: Early Australian Earth Scientists in the Antarctic: Part 2 - Geologists with Scott's 1911-1912 Final Expedition', TAG: Geological Society of Australia Newsletter, 161 (2011), 21-6. Details
  • Rae, Ian, 'Trials of a Vice-chancellor', Chemistry in Australia, 81 (2) (2014), 41. Details

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See also

  • Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_p.html. Details
  • Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
  • Priestley, Rebecca, Dispatches from continent seven: an anthology of Antarctic science (Wellington, New Zealand: Awa Press, 2016), 422 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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