Biographical entry Priestley, Raymond Edward (1886 - 1974)

Summary

(Sir) Raymond Edward Priestley left an academic and administrative career at Cambridge University to accompany Shackleton and Scott on their Antarctic expeditions 1907-13. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne until 1938 and then returned to the U.K.

Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Raymond Edward Priestley - Records, 1935 - 1974; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Priestley, Raymond, The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor: University of Melbourne 1935-1938, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2002, 555 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Murray-Smith, S., 'Priestley, Sir Raymond Edward (1886-1974), Scientist and Vice-Chancellor', in Geoffrey Serle (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 295-296. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110303b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Raymond Edward Priestley', Uni News, vol. 12, no. 16, 2003, p. 4. Details
• Priestley, R. E., 'Sir Edgeworth David', Australian Quaterly, vol. 10, no. 2, 1938, pp. 34-39. Details

Online Resources

• 'Priestley, Raymond E', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1218778. Details

See also

• Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P000725. Details
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003, 168 pp. Details