Malcolm Uren

Malcolm John Leggoe Uren was an Australian journalist who edited the Western Mail in Western Australia.

Early life

Uren was born on 7 January 1900 in West Hindmarsh, an inner-city suburb in Adelaide, South Australia to Malcolm Francis Uren and Millicent Jane Leggoe. The Uren family then moved to Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Uren married Lenora Emily Olive Stradwick (Klenk) on 25 August 1923. They had a son, Malcolm Charles Uren (Bon) (1924 - 2002) and two grandchildren, Leslie (1948) and Malcolm John Spencer (1951 - 2004).

Career

Uren became a cadet journalist with the Perth-based Western Mail in 1920, and by 1941 was its editor.^[1]

Later life

In 1965 Uren was awarded an Order of the British Empire.

Published works

• (1945) Sailormen's ghosts: the Abrolhos islands in three hundred years of romance, history, and adventure. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens.
• (1945) Waterless horizons: the first full-length study of the extraordinary life-story of Edward John Eyre, explorer, overlander and pastoralist in Australia. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens.
• (1948) Land Looking West: The story of Governor James Stirling in Western Australia. London: Oxford University Press.
• (1964) Edward John Eyre (Australian explorers). London: Oxford University Press.
• (1970) The City of Melville From Bushland to Expanding Metropolis. Melville City

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