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Life Summary

Name	Frederick Alexander
Born	12 April, 1899 Glen Waverley, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	17 March, 1996 (aged 96) Claremont, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Cause of Death	unknown
Religious Influence	Presbyterian Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Shann, Edward Owen Giblin (colleague) Gentilli, Joseph (colleague) Murdoch, Keith Arthur (acquaintance) Boyer, Richard James Fildes (acquaintance) Casey, Richard Gavin Gardiner (employer)
Education *	Melbourne High School (student, 1911-1915) Trinity College (University of Melbourne) (student, 1917-1919) University of Melbourne (student, 1917-1919) Oxford University (student, 1921-1922)
Occupation or Descriptor *	adult educator (?-1954) Western Australia, Australia academic (1924-1941) Western Australia, Australia historian (general) (1924-1966) Western Australia, Australia army officer (1941-1944) Federal, Australia academic (1944-1966) Western Australia, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1986-1987) Western Australia, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (army officer)
Awards	Rhodes Scholar (recipient, 1932) Rockefeller Fellowship (recipient, 1940) Carnegie scholarship (recipient, 1949-1950) Commander of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1966) Redmond Barry Award (Australian Library and Information Association) (recipient, 1979)
Legacies *	Frederick Alexander building (WA) (eponym) Frederick Alexander fellowship (University of Western Australia) (eponym) Frederick Alexander lecture theatre (University of Western Australia) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Australian-American Association (federal) (founder) League of Nations Union (Perth) (member) Oxford University Boy Emigration Movement (secretary) Rockefeller Fellowship (Australian committee member) Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (member, 1953) Rockefeller Fellowship (Australian chair, 1953-1960) State Library of Western Australia (board member, 1953-1982) Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust (director, 1954-1984)
Workplaces *	University of Western Australia (history) (academic, 1924-1966)

* Dates are approximate