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{{Infobox person
| honorific-prefix =
| name= A. C. V. Melbourne
| honorific-suffix =
| image=
| caption=
| birth_name = Alexander Clifford Vernon Melbourne
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1888|6|10}}
| birth_place = [[Hackney, South Australia]], Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|1|7|1888|6|10|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Brisbane, Queensland]], Australia
| spouse = {{marriage|Ellen Lowenthal|1919}}
| alma_mater = [[University of Queensland]]<br/>[[University of Adelaide]]<br/>[[University of Adelaide]]
| occupation = Historian
}}
'''Alexander Clifford Vernon Melbourne''' (10 June 1888 – 7 January 1943) was an Australian historian and writer. He had a long involvement with the [[University of Queensland]] as a lecturer and associate professor in history. Initially concentrating on [[Constitutional history of Australia|Australian constitutional history]], he later developed an interest in international relations and foreign policy, notably [[Australia–China relations|Australia–China]] and [[Australia–Japan relations]].
==Early life==
Melbourne was born on 10 June 1888 in [[Hackney, South Australia]]. He was the son of Elizabeth Agnes (née Braidwood) and William Clifford Melbourne; his father was a printer and trade union official.<ref name=adb>{{cite news|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/melbourne-alexander-clifford-vernon-7552|title=Alexander Clifford Vernon Melbourne (1888–1943)|newspaper=Australian Dictionary of Biography|year=1986|volume=10|publisher=Melbourne University Press|first=Malcolm I.|last=Thomis}}</ref>
Melbourne attended Norwood Public School and then trained as a [[pupil-teacher]], teaching at Unley Public School for three years. He went on to attend the [[University of Adelaide]], graduating in 1910 with honours in history.<ref name=adb/>
==Career==
===Early career and military service===
In 1913, Melbourne moved to [[Brisbane]] and joined the [[University of Queensland]]'s history and economics department as a temporary assistant lecturer. He was a founding member of the [[Royal Historical Society of Queensland|Historical Society of Queensland]], serving as its honorary secretary and delivering the inaugural address at its first meeting.<ref name=adb/>
Melbourne enlisted in the [[First Australian Imperial Force|Australian Imperial Force]] (AIF) in August 1914 as a captain in the [[9th Battalion (Australia)|9th Battalion]]. He served on the [[Gallipoli campaign]] and was wounded in the [[landing at Anzac Cove]] on 25 April 1915, receiving a further injury in June 1915. He was invalided back to Australia in October 1915 and returned to the University of Queensland, also undertaking work in wartime censorship.<ref name=adb/>
===Academia===
In 1919, Melbourne was appointed as a lecturer in history and [[industrial history]] at the University of Queensland. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the university's newly created professorial chair in history in 1924, losing out to [[Henry Alcock]]. He later made unsuccessful applications for professorships at the [[University of Sydney]] (1929), [[University of Adelaide]] (1934), and [[University of Melbourne]] (1937).
Melbourne was eventually elevated to the rank of [[associate professor]] at the University of Queensland in the 1930s. He served on the university's [[academic senate]] from 1926 to 1928 and from 1932 to 1943, and was heavily involved in the planning of the new campus at [[St Lucia, Queensland|St Lucia]]. He was remembered by vice-chancellor [[John Douglas Story]] as "one of the most virile and progressive members of the Senate".<ref name=adb/>
===Publications===
Melbourne's early interests were in [[Constitutional history of Australia|Australian constitutional history]]. He completed a [[Master of Arts]] at the University of Adelaide in 1921, with a thesis on the constitutional development of Queensland. In 1928 he was awarded a [[Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial]] fellowship to study in England, completing a Ph.D. under [[A. P. Newton]] in 1930. He subsequently contributed two chapters to volume seven of Newton's ''[[The Cambridge History of the British Empire|Cambridge History of the British Empire]]'' (1933) and published ''Early Constitutional Development in Australia'' (1934).<ref name=adb/>
Melbourne's later work concentrated on international relations and Australian relations with Asia. He visited China and Japan on behalf of the University of Queensland in 1931 and 1932.<ref name=adb/> His subsequent publication ''Report on Australian Intercourse with Japan and China'' recommended that the Australian government send an official delegation to Asia, which with a similar publication by [[H. W. Gepp]] influenced [[John Greig Latham|John Latham]]'s [[Australian Eastern Mission]] in 1934.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2008-08/apo-nid2694.pdf|title=Within China's Orbit?: China Through the Eyes of the Australian Parliament|first=Timothy|last=Kendall|year=2008|publisher=Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliament of Australia|isbn=0975201581|page=?}}</ref> Melbourne chaired the federal government's Advisory Committee on Eastern Trade from 1933 to 1935 and was an unsuccessful applicant to become Australia's first [[Australian Ambassador to Japan|trade commissioner to Japan]] in 1935. He returned to China and Japan in 1936 and published ''Report on a Visit to the Universities of China and Japan'' in the same year.<ref name=adb/>
==Personal life==
In 1916, Melbourne married Ellen Mary Lowenthal; the couple had no children. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at a private hospital in Brisbane on 7 January 1943, aged 54.<ref name=adb/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Melbourne, A}}
[[Category:1888 births]]
[[Category:1943 deaths]]
Okumaya devam et...
{{Infobox person
| honorific-prefix =
| name= A. C. V. Melbourne
| honorific-suffix =
| image=
| caption=
| birth_name = Alexander Clifford Vernon Melbourne
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1888|6|10}}
| birth_place = [[Hackney, South Australia]], Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|1|7|1888|6|10|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Brisbane, Queensland]], Australia
| spouse = {{marriage|Ellen Lowenthal|1919}}
| alma_mater = [[University of Queensland]]<br/>[[University of Adelaide]]<br/>[[University of Adelaide]]
| occupation = Historian
}}
'''Alexander Clifford Vernon Melbourne''' (10 June 1888 – 7 January 1943) was an Australian historian and writer. He had a long involvement with the [[University of Queensland]] as a lecturer and associate professor in history. Initially concentrating on [[Constitutional history of Australia|Australian constitutional history]], he later developed an interest in international relations and foreign policy, notably [[Australia–China relations|Australia–China]] and [[Australia–Japan relations]].
==Early life==
Melbourne was born on 10 June 1888 in [[Hackney, South Australia]]. He was the son of Elizabeth Agnes (née Braidwood) and William Clifford Melbourne; his father was a printer and trade union official.<ref name=adb>{{cite news|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/melbourne-alexander-clifford-vernon-7552|title=Alexander Clifford Vernon Melbourne (1888–1943)|newspaper=Australian Dictionary of Biography|year=1986|volume=10|publisher=Melbourne University Press|first=Malcolm I.|last=Thomis}}</ref>
Melbourne attended Norwood Public School and then trained as a [[pupil-teacher]], teaching at Unley Public School for three years. He went on to attend the [[University of Adelaide]], graduating in 1910 with honours in history.<ref name=adb/>
==Career==
===Early career and military service===
In 1913, Melbourne moved to [[Brisbane]] and joined the [[University of Queensland]]'s history and economics department as a temporary assistant lecturer. He was a founding member of the [[Royal Historical Society of Queensland|Historical Society of Queensland]], serving as its honorary secretary and delivering the inaugural address at its first meeting.<ref name=adb/>
Melbourne enlisted in the [[First Australian Imperial Force|Australian Imperial Force]] (AIF) in August 1914 as a captain in the [[9th Battalion (Australia)|9th Battalion]]. He served on the [[Gallipoli campaign]] and was wounded in the [[landing at Anzac Cove]] on 25 April 1915, receiving a further injury in June 1915. He was invalided back to Australia in October 1915 and returned to the University of Queensland, also undertaking work in wartime censorship.<ref name=adb/>
===Academia===
In 1919, Melbourne was appointed as a lecturer in history and [[industrial history]] at the University of Queensland. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the university's newly created professorial chair in history in 1924, losing out to [[Henry Alcock]]. He later made unsuccessful applications for professorships at the [[University of Sydney]] (1929), [[University of Adelaide]] (1934), and [[University of Melbourne]] (1937).
Melbourne was eventually elevated to the rank of [[associate professor]] at the University of Queensland in the 1930s. He served on the university's [[academic senate]] from 1926 to 1928 and from 1932 to 1943, and was heavily involved in the planning of the new campus at [[St Lucia, Queensland|St Lucia]]. He was remembered by vice-chancellor [[John Douglas Story]] as "one of the most virile and progressive members of the Senate".<ref name=adb/>
===Publications===
Melbourne's early interests were in [[Constitutional history of Australia|Australian constitutional history]]. He completed a [[Master of Arts]] at the University of Adelaide in 1921, with a thesis on the constitutional development of Queensland. In 1928 he was awarded a [[Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial]] fellowship to study in England, completing a Ph.D. under [[A. P. Newton]] in 1930. He subsequently contributed two chapters to volume seven of Newton's ''[[The Cambridge History of the British Empire|Cambridge History of the British Empire]]'' (1933) and published ''Early Constitutional Development in Australia'' (1934).<ref name=adb/>
Melbourne's later work concentrated on international relations and Australian relations with Asia. He visited China and Japan on behalf of the University of Queensland in 1931 and 1932.<ref name=adb/> His subsequent publication ''Report on Australian Intercourse with Japan and China'' recommended that the Australian government send an official delegation to Asia, which with a similar publication by [[H. W. Gepp]] influenced [[John Greig Latham|John Latham]]'s [[Australian Eastern Mission]] in 1934.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2008-08/apo-nid2694.pdf|title=Within China's Orbit?: China Through the Eyes of the Australian Parliament|first=Timothy|last=Kendall|year=2008|publisher=Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliament of Australia|isbn=0975201581|page=?}}</ref> Melbourne chaired the federal government's Advisory Committee on Eastern Trade from 1933 to 1935 and was an unsuccessful applicant to become Australia's first [[Australian Ambassador to Japan|trade commissioner to Japan]] in 1935. He returned to China and Japan in 1936 and published ''Report on a Visit to the Universities of China and Japan'' in the same year.<ref name=adb/>
==Personal life==
In 1916, Melbourne married Ellen Mary Lowenthal; the couple had no children. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at a private hospital in Brisbane on 7 January 1943, aged 54.<ref name=adb/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Melbourne, A}}
[[Category:1888 births]]
[[Category:1943 deaths]]
Okumaya devam et...