Hugh Stretton
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Hugh Stretton AC is an Australian historian and professor. Educated at the University of Melbourne, the University of Oxford and Princeton University. He was deputy chair of the South Australian Housing Trust for 17 years. He currently resides in Adelaide, Australia.
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Along with Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes, Clive James and others, Hugh Stretton is one of a band of Australian intellectuals with an overriding sense of the social nature of reality and of their own obligations in re-creating this reality for the better. I was an adolescent when I first encountered Hugh through a marvellous paperback "Ideas for Australian Cities" - the possibility that cities could be thought about as entities was exhilarating. How fortunate I was then to have Hugh as a lecturer in the History Department at the University of Adelaide in the 1960s. He was softly spoken (unlike some other academics in the Arts Faculty), and warm. He remains relatively unsung in Australia, though I believe his reputation worldwide is high. A treasure!
