Brian Fitzpatrick

Journalist, Author

1905 – 1965

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Who was Brian Fitzpatrick?

Brian Charles Fitzpatrick was an author, historian, journalist and one of the founders of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties.

Fitzpatrick was born in Warrnambool, Victoria, the seventh of eight children. His father died when Brian was 14 years old. Brian rebelled against his oldest brother's management of the family after his father's death.

Fitzpatrick was educated at Essendon High school and then at the University of Melbourne on a scholarship. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1925 and Master of Arts in 1934. At the university he was a founder and chief of staff of Farrago, the student newspaper, and also a founder of the Melbourne University Labor Club.

From 1925 to 1935 he worked as a journalist in London, Sydney and Melbourne. He married Kathleen Fitzpatrick on 28 August 1932, but they separated in 1935.

In 1937 Fitzpatrick won the University of Melbourne's Harbison Higinbotham Scholarship with his manuscript of British imperialism and Australia 1783-1833; it was published by George Allen and Unwin in 1939. A sequel, The British Empire in Australia : an economic history, 1834-1939 was published in 1941. In 1940 Fitzpatrick was appointed a Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Melbourne. He took leave during the war, working for the Commonwealth Rationing Commission and then the Department of War Organisation of Industry. He resumed his fellowship with the University in 1944 and remained there until 1947.

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Born
Nov 17, 1905
Australia
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  • University of Melbourne
Died
Sep 3, 1965

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on July 23, 2013

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