Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Greenwood, Gordon
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Greenwood, Gordon, 1913-1986
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1913-1986
History
Gordon Greenwood was born on 17 September 1913 and educated at the University of Sydney, where he received a Bachelor of Arts (1935) and Master of Arts (1937), both with First Class Honours in History and the University Medal. He was appointed the (Sir Samuel) McCaughey Professor of History at the University of Queensland in 1949. Over the next thirty years he greatly expanded the size and reputation of the History Department. He published many texts, and was involved in a range of institutes and organisations over the course of his career. He established the Australian journal of politics and history in 1955 and served as the editor until 1982. He was a member of the University of Queensland Senate from 1953 to 1983. He served as Chair of the Library Committee (1964 to 1976), leading efforts to develop and strengthen the Library's holdings, and chaired the library sub-committee of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. His advocacy for the importance of libraries was recognised in 1984 when the Library Association of Australia presented him with the Sir Redmond Barry Award. Greenwood was a member of the Social Science Research Committee of Australia, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a member of the Australian Humanities Research Council and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 1982, before his retirement, he was appointed as a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). In 1983, he was conferred the title of Emeritus Professor and awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by UQ. He died in 1986. In 1989, the University of Queensland named the Gordon Greenwood building in his honour. Helen Derrick, his daughter, later posthumously published some of Greenwood's manuscripts.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 24-Mar-2025.
Revised, Linda Justo, 12-May-2020.
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
W. Ross Johnston, 'Greenwood, Gordon (1913–1986)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed online 12 May 2020.
Maintenance notes
Revised with access point and expanded history, Kymberley Doyle, 24-Mar-2025.