Hector Kinloch

Hector Gilchrist Kinloch (14 December 1927 – 1993) was an Australian academic and politician.

Biography

He was born Boston, Massachusetts in 1927.

He travelled to the England where he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with first class honours in history 1949.

After graduating he served in the US Army for three years. In 1960 he moved to Australia and lectured at the University of Adelaide in history. From 1965-1968 he was Visiting Fulbright Professor of US History at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He joined the Australian National University in 1968 and remained there until 1988.

He helped establish the National Association for Gambling Studies and was a vociferous critic of the proposed Casino Canberra. Given his anti-gambling stance he was invited by Bernard Collaery, of the Residents Rally to be a candidate in the first ACT Legislative Assembly elections. He was elected in 1989 and retired in 1992.

He died in 1993.

Legacy

Kinloch Circuit in the Canberra Suburb of Bruce is named after him, as is the Kinloch UniLodge on the ANU campus, and the north tower of ANU Fenner Hall residence.1

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