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Hazel King


Hazel King was a member of the Order of Australia and holds a D.Phil. from Oxford University. She was a Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society. From 1965 she was co-editor of the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, and was a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sydney until 1974. She contributed to numerous articles to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and to historical periodicals, and has published a number of books, including Richard Bourke(1971) and Elizabeth Macarthur and her World (1980).

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