Hector Kinloch
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- Australian
- lecturing on US History
- radio reporting on US politics (to an Australian audience)
- work on Gambling Addiction
- campaigning against allowing Casinos in Canberra
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| Born | 14 December 1927 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | 6 August 1993 (aged 65) Canberra, Australia |
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| Children | 3 |
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| Thesis | Anglican Clergy in Connecticut 1701-1785 (1960) |
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Hector Gilchrist Lusk Mactaggart Kinloch (14 December 1927 – 6 August 1993) was an American-born Australian academic and politician.
He was born Boston, Massachusetts, in 1927.[citation needed]
He travelled to England, where he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with first class honors in history in 1949.[2]
After graduating he served in the US Army for three years.[3] In 1960, he moved to Australia and lectured in history at the University of Adelaide. 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 Canberra in 1968 and remained there until 1988.[4]
He helped establish the National Association for Gambling Studies and was a vociferous critic of the proposed Casino Canberra.[5] Given his anti-gambling stance he was invited by Bernard Collaery of the Residents Rally to be a candidate in the inaugural ACT Legislative Assembly election. He was elected in 1989 and retired in 1992.[citation needed]
He died on 6 August 1993.
