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Name	Hume Dow
Born	4 January, 1916 Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	22 November, 1997 (aged 81) Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	heart disease
Related Entries	[View as tree] Dow, Gwyneth Maude (wife) Dow, John Lamont (grandfather) Maxwell, Ian Ramsay (work colleague)
Education *	Harvard University (USA) (student, 1935-1938)
Occupation or Descriptor *	journalist (1938-1953) Victoria, Australia army officer (1942-1946) Federal, Australia academic (1953-1982) Victoria, Australia literary scholar (1953-1982) Victoria, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (army officer)
Key Organisations *	Australian Journalists' Association (Vic) (member, 1946)
Workplaces *	Argus (Melbourne) newspaper (journalist, 1938-1941) Radio Australia (journalist, 1946-1948) Argus (Melbourne) newspaper (journalist, 1948-1950) University of Melbourne (English) (academic, 1953-1982)

* Dates are approximate