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Beverley Kingston FASSA (born 1941) is an Australian historian. She is author of volume 3 of the Oxford History of Australia. [1]

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Early life and education

Beverley Rhonda Kingston was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1941, [2] but grew up in north Queensland where her father was a manager with the Commonwealth Bank. She attended Presbyterian Girls' College in Warwick, Queensland as a boarder before enrolling in the University of Queensland, from which she graduated in 1963 with a BA (hons). [3] Moving to Melbourne, she completed a PhD at Monash University in 1968. [4]

Career

Kingston joined the University of New South Wales in 1969 and worked there for 30 years, retiring in 1999. [3]

She has been actively involved in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) since 1974, including as chair of the NSW advisory group (1994–) and as a member of the Editorial Board (1996–). [5] Her thirty contributions to the ADB include biographies of feminist Maybanke Anderson, [6] poet Dorothea Mackellar [7] and editor Beatrice Deloitte Davis. [8]

Kingston was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1994. [9]

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References

  1. Kingston, Beverley (1988), The Oxford History of Australia, 1860–1900: Glad, confident morning, 3, Oxford University Press, retrieved 30 September 2020
  2. "Kingston, Beverley Rhonda". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  3. 1 2 Foley, Susan; Souerwine, Charles. "Kingston, Beverley Rhonda". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  4. Kingston, Beverley (1968), Land Legislation and Administration in Queensland, 1859–1876, Monash University, retrieved 30 September 2020
  5. "Editorial Board". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  6. Kingston, Beverley (1979), "Anderson, Maybanke Susannah (1845–1927)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 7, retrieved 29 September 2020
  7. Kingston, Beverley (1986), "Mackellar, Isobel Marion Dorothea (1885–1968)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 10, retrieved 29 September 2020
  8. Kingston, Beverley (2016), "Davis, Beatrice Deloitte (1909–1992)", Australian Dictionary of Biography (online), Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 September 2020
  9. "Academy Fellow: Associate Professor Beverley Kingston FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 29 September 2020.