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Name	Stephen Murray-Smith
Born	9 September, 1922 Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	31 July, 1988 (aged 65) Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	heart disease
Cultural Heritage	Scottish Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Tennant, Kathleen (employee) Mann, Leonard (associate) Turner, Ian Alexander (associate) Waten, Judah Leon (collaborator) Reid, Barrett (collaborator)
Occupation or Descriptor *	soldier (1941-1945) Federal, Australia communist (1945-1958) Victoria, Australia political activist (1949-1988) Victoria, Australia magazine/journal editor (1954-1988) Victoria, Australia academic (1961-1987) Victoria, Australia
Key Organisations *	Australian Dictionary of Biography (ANU) (author, 1964-1987) Australian Dictionary of Biography (ANU) (Working Party member, 1977-1988)

* Dates are approximate