Identity area
Type of entity
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Authorized form of name
McDonald, Lorna, 1916-2017
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- McDonald, Lorna, 1916-
Other form(s) of name
- McDonald, Lorna L. (Lorna Lorraine), 1916-
- Bucknall, Lorna Lorraine
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Dates of existence
1916-2017
History
Lorna Lorraine McDonald, née Bucknall, was born in Portland, Victoria, on 10 August 1916. She married Reverend Hugh McDonald in 1938. After raising three sons in country New South Wales and in Sydney, Lorna and her husband moved to Rockhampton in 1963. She studied as an external student at the University of Queensland, gaining her PhD in History in 1986. She was appointed Rockhampton Historian from 1976 to 1980, and Gladstone Historian from 1984 to 1987. She continued working as a freelance public historian until 2011. She received the OAM (1995); a D.Litt from Central Queensland University (2000); and the John Douglas Kerr Medal of Distinction from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland and Professional Historians' Association (2007). She died in 2017.
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Revised
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Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 18-Mar-2025.
Revised, FF, 15-Jun-2020.
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Internal evidence.
Queensland Historians. (2017, July 1). Vale Dr Lorna McDonald OAM 1916-2017. e-Bulletin, Professional Historians Association Queensland, accessed online 18-Mar-2025.
Maintenance notes
Revised with access point and source, Kymberley Doyle, 18-Mar-2025.
Revised with standardized form of name according to other rules, other forms of name, updated history and authority record identifier, FF, 15-Jun-2020.