Bate, Weston, 1924-2017
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Name (Latin)
Bate, Weston, 1924-2017
Name (Arabic)
بيت، ويستون، 1924-2017
Other forms of name
Bate, Vale Weston Arthur, 1924-2017
Bate, Weston, 1924-
nnaa Bate, Weston Arthur
Date of birth
1924-09-24
Date of death
2017-10-31
Field of activity
Australia--History
australian studies
Occupation
Historians
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- pages 546-549 (Weston Bate; born 1924 in Surrey Hills, Melbourne; his mother, Mary Akers, hailed from California where his maternal grandfather had been a fruit farmer, and his Lancashire-born father, Ernest, was Deputy then Chief Engineer with the Victorian State Electricity Commission; attended Surrey Hills State School before going on to Scotch College; during the war he spent two years as a pilot in England as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme, and on his return took advantage of a returned serviceman's tertiary scholarship to study English and history at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a BA in 1948; began his teaching career at Brighton and later Melbourne Grammar; master's in history (1952) (thesis: The history of Brighton, 1841-1859 : a study of the private township formed on Henry Dendy's Special Survey in 1841); will be best remembered for his influence on local history writing, his pioneering urban history methods, his passion for the poetics of the historian's craft, his insistence on the value of community networks, and his fascination with the dynamics of local/central power relationships; married Janice Wilson in 1955, continued his teaching career, and saw the birth of four of his six children by the time of the 1962 publication of an expanded version of A history of Brighton; a brief turn at Monash University was followed in 1965 by his recruitment to the University of Melbourne; professor of Australian studies at Deakin University from 1978 until his retirement in 1989; author of Lucky city : the first generation at Ballarat, 1851-1901 (1978), Victorian Gold Rushes (1988), Life after gold : twentieth-century Ballarat (1993), Essential but unplanned : the story of Melbourne's lanes (1994), and several histories of schools and golf clubs; affiliated with the Oral History Association of Australia and the Museums Advisory Board; former president of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria RHSV; key instigator of Sovereign Hill pioneer settlement ( (Australian Historical Studies, volume 49, issue 4, 2018:) )
- Professor Weston Arthur Bate OAM [Medal of the Order of Australia]; born in Mont Albert, Melbourne in 1924; died October 31, 2017; attended Surrey Hills Primary School before entering Scotch College, Melbourne; after leaving Scotch he enlisted in the RAAF in 1943; after he returned to Australia he entered Ormond College to complete a bachelor's degree in education; he began teaching at Brighton Grammar School in 1949 and it is while here that he wrote his first local history A history of Brighton; he later taught at Melbourne Grammar, Melbourne University and Bradfield College, Berkshire before returning to Melbourne University in 1965 to teach Australian history where he became Reader, then History Department Head; in 1978 he became foundation professor of Australian Studies at Deakin University where he began his close association with Geelong which was eventually to lead to his writing in 'retirement' of histories of Geelong Grammar, 'Light Blue Down under' and of the Barwon Head Golf Club, 'Heads You Win (2007); throughout his life he championed the cause of local and cultural history, publishing 16 major histories, supporting local historical societies, and actively campaigning for protection of Victoria's heritage; member of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV) Council (1990-2005) (president (2002-2005), the chair of the Museums Advisory Board, and a patron of the Maritime Museums Association; sources: Bendigo Advertiser 2 November 2017; 'Inspiring Trailblazer of Local History' by Professor Richard Broome, Sydney Morning Herald 8 December 2017; The Courier (Ballarat) 2 November 2017; Ad Astra December 2018 page 61 ( (Geelong College website, March 10, 2022:) )
- posted November 2018 (Vale Weston Arthur Bate; Weston Bate; born in Surrey Hills, Melbourne in 1924; died October 31, 2017; historian; wife is Janice ( (Royal Historical Society of Victoria RHSV website, March 10, 2022:) )
- updated on December 8, 2017 (Weston Arthur Bate was born on September 24, 1924 in Mont Albert, Melbourne; died October 31, 2017; son of Mary Olive (Molly) Akers, a Californian, and Ernest Bate, an English-born electrical engineer, who became chief engineer at the SEC; wife is Janice ( (The Sydney Morning Herald (news) website, March 10, 2022:) )
- His A history of Brighton, 1983:t.p. (Weston Bate) Aus. CIP (Bate, Weston, 1924-)
- LC data base, 8-16-84(hdg.: Bate, Weston Arthur; usage: Weston Bate)