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Life Summary

Name	Raymond Maxwell Crawford
Born	6 August, 1906 Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia
Died	24 November, 1991 (aged 85) Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	heart disease
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] Crawford, John Grenfell (brother) Roberts, Stephen Henry (work colleague) Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Elizabeth (work colleague) Conlon, Alfred Austin (work colleague) La Nauze, Andrew John (work colleague) James, Gwynydd Francis (mentored) Wood, George Arnold (teacher) Clark, Charles Manning (pupil) Knopfelmacher, Frank (related entry)
Education *	Bexley Public School (Sydney) (student, 1913-1918) Sydney Boys' High School (student, 1919-1923) University of Sydney (student, 1924-1926) Oxford University (student, 1927-1930)
Occupation or Descriptor *	schoolteacher (1930-1932) New South Wales, Australia academic (1935-1936) New South Wales, Australia academic (1937-1970) Victoria, Australia civil libertarian (1937-1991) Victoria, Australia historian (general) (1937-1975) Victoria, Australia
Awards	Woolley Scholarship (recipient, 1927) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1971)
Legacies *	Max Crawford Chair of History (University of Melbourne) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Australian Council for Civil Liberties (vice-president, 1938-1945) Historical Studies Australia and New Zealand (founder, 1940) Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (member, 1942-1954) Australian Academy of the Humanities (founding member, 1954-1954) Australian Academy of the Humanities (member, 1954-1968) Australian Academy of the Humanities (chair, 1965-1968) Australian Academy of the Humanities (fellow, 1969-1991)
Workplaces *	Sydney Grammar School (teacher, 1930-1931) University of Sydney (history) (academic, 1935-1936) University of Melbourne (history) (academic, 1937-1970)

* Dates are approximate