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Life Summary

Name	William Douglass Forsyth
Alternative Names	W. D. Forsyth
Born	5 January, 1909 Casterton, Victoria, Australia
Died	3 March, 1993 (aged 84) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Cause of Death	unknown
Related Entries	[View as tree] MacArthur, Douglas (acquaintance) DeRoburt, Hammer (related entry) Evatt, Herbert Vere (minister)
Education *	Ballarat High School (Vic) (student, 1921-1924) University of Melbourne (student, ?-1947) University of Melbourne (student, 1928-1932) Oxford University (student, 1936) University of London (student, 1936-1936)
Occupation or Descriptor *	schoolteacher (1924-1936) Victoria, Australia public servant (1941-1969) Federal, Australia ambassador (1951-1955) Federal, Australia ambassador (1959-1961) Federal, Australia ambassador (1967-1969) Federal, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1970-1973) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Awards	Harbison-Higinbotham research scholarship (University of Melbourne) (recipient, 1935) Rockefeller Fellowship (recipient, 1936) Harbison-Higinbotham research scholarship (University of Melbourne) (recipient, 1940) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1955)
Key Organisations *	South Pacific Commission (secretary-general, 1948-1951)
Workplaces *	Sale High School (Vic) (schoolteacher, 1933-1934) Shepparton High School (Vic) (schoolteacher, 1935-1936) Australian Institute of International Affairs (national) (research officer, 1939) Dept of Information (Federal) (public servant, 1941-1942) Dept of External Affairs (federal) (public servant, 1942-1969) United Nations (New York) (ambassador, 1951-1955) Dept of External Affairs (federal) (public servant, 1956) South Pacific Commission (secretary-general, 1963-1966)

* Dates are approximate