Australian Dictionary of Biography

20 December 1894
Jeparit, Victoria, Australia

15 May 1978
Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• English
• Scottish

• Presbyterian

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• Menzies, Pattie Maie (wife)
• Leckie, John William (father-in-law)
• Green, Isabel Alice (sister)
• Menzies, Frank Gladstone (brother)
• Trigellis-Smith, Beryl Randall (cousin)
• Menzies, Douglas Ian (cousin)
• Jones, Charles Lloyd (friend)
• Lindsay, Norman Alfred (friend)
• Brookes, Mabel Balcombe (friend)
• Stretton, Leonard Edward (friend)
• Potter, William Ian (friend)
• Stirling, Alfred Thorp (friend)
• Purbrick, Eric Stevens (friend)
• Titterton, Ernest William (friend)
• Smith, Harold Gengoult (family friend)
• Harford, Lesbia Venner (classmate)
• Looker, Cecil Thomas (employee)
• Cameron, Archie Galbraith (work colleague)
• Martin, Leslie Harold (work colleague)
• Watt, Alan Stewart (work colleague)
• McKnight, Allan Douglas (work colleague)
• Dixon, Owen (colleague)
• McBride, Philip Albert (colleague)
• McLeay, John (colleague)
• Lyons, Enid Muriel (colleague)
• Spender, Percy Claude (colleague)
• Moore, Lyle Howard (colleague)
• McMahon, William (colleague)
• Willoughby, James Robert (colleague)
• Pagan, John Ernest (colleague)
• Swan, Trevor Winchester (colleague)
• Snedden, Billy Mackie (colleague)
• Murdoch, Keith Arthur (acquaintance)
• Trendall, Arthur Dale (acquaintance)
• Richardson, Horace Frank (associate)
• Randall, Richard John (associate)
• Reid, Alan Douglas (associate)
• McKell, William John (opposed)
• Moore, William Harrison (teacher)
• Hele, Ivor Henry (artist)
• Kemp, Charles Denton (influence)
• Laurie, Edward Andrew (political adversary)
• Ellery, Reginald Spencer (client)
• Treatt, Vernon Haddon (related entry)
• Stanner, William Edward (related entry)

• Humffray Street State School (Ballarat, Vic) (student, 1900-1907)
• Grenville College (Ballarat, Vic) (student, 1908-1909)
• Wesley College (Melbourne) (student, 1910-1912)
• University of Melbourne (student, 1913-1917)

• barrister (1918-1934) Victoria, Australia
• liberal/conservative politician (1928-1934) Victoria, Australia
• Member of Upper House (1928-1929) Victoria, Australia
• Member of Lower House (1929-1934) Victoria, Australia
• liberal/conservative politician (1934-1966) Federal, Australia
• Member of Lower House (1934-1966) Federal, Australia
• prime minister (1939-1941) Federal, Australia
• prime minister (1949-1966) Federal, Australia

• King George V Silver Jubilee Medal (recipient, 1935)
• King George VI Coronation Medal (1937) (recipient, 1937)
• Legion of Merit (US) (recipient, 1950)
• Order of the Companion of Honour (recipient, 1951)
• Queen Elizabeth II coronation medal (1953) (recipient, 1953)
• Knight Bachelor (recipient, 1963)
• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star (Japan) (recipient, 1973)
• Knight of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1976)

• Savage Club (Melbourne) (member, ?-1978)

• Petrov Affair, 1954 (prime minister)
• referendum on ban of Communist Party (1951) (instigator)

• Federal Parliament (15th: 1937-40, PM: Lyons, Page, Menzies) (Prime Minister, 1939-1940)
• Federal Parliament (16th: 1940-43, PM: Menzies, Fadden, Curtin) (Prime Minister, 1941-1941)
• Federal Parliament (19th: 1949-1951, PM: Menzies) (Prime Minister, 1949-1951)
• Federal Parliament (20th: 1951-1954, PM: Menzies) (Prime Minister, 1951-1954)
• Federal Parliament (21st: 1954-1955, PM: Menzies) (Prime Minister, 1954-1955)
• Federal Parliament (22nd: 1955-1958, PM: Menzies) (Prime Minister, 1955-1958)
• Federal Parliament (23rd: 1958-1961, PM: Menzies) (Prime Minister, 1958-1961)
• Federal Parliament (24th: 1961-1963, PM: Menzies) (Prime Minister, 1961-1963)
• Federal Parliament (25th: 1963-1966, PM: Menzies, Holt) (Prime Minister, 1963-1966)

• Menzies Building (Monash University) (eponym)
• Menzies federal electorate (Vic) (eponym)
• Menzies Foundation (eponym)
• Menzies Library (ANU) (eponym)
• Menzies Research Centre (eponym)
• Menzies Wing (Wesley College, Melbourne) (eponym)
• R.G. Menzies Walk (Lake Burley Griffin, ACT) (eponym)
• Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Medicine (eponym)
• Sir Robert Menzies Park (Wahroonga, Sydney) (eponym)
• Sir Robert Menzies Reserve (Malvern, Melbourne) (eponym)

• Melbourne University Magazine (editor, 1916-1916)