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Life Summary

Name	Kenneth Stanley Inglis
Born	7 October, 1929 Ivanhoe, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	1 December, 2017 (aged 88) Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (pancreatic)
Related Entries	[View as tree] Inglis, Amirah (wife) Barwick, Diane Elizabeth (friend) Clark, Charles Manning (colleague) Karmel, Peter Henry (colleague) MacDonagh, Oliver (colleague) Molony, John Neylon (colleague) Nelson, Hyland Neil (colleague) Ritchie, John (colleague) Phillips, Nancy (acquaintance) Johnson, Flora (acquaintance) McCallum, Ann (acquaintance)
Education *	Tyler Street Primary School (Melbourne) (student, 1935-1939) Northcote High School (Melbourne) (student, 1940-1944) Melbourne High School (student, 1945-1945) Queen's College (University of Melbourne) (student, 1946) University of Melbourne (student, 1946) Oxford University (student, 1952-1955)
Occupation or Descriptor *	academic (1956-1962) South Australia, Australia historian (general) (1956-1962) South Australia, Australia academic (1962-1967) Australian Capital Territory, Australia historian (general) (1962-1967) Australian Capital Territory, Australia academic (1967-1975) Papua New Guinea, Australia historian (general) (1967-1975) Papua New Guinea, Australia academic (1975-1982) Australian Capital Territory, Australia historian (general) (1975-1982) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Awards	Australian Media Hall of Fame (inductee) Centenary Medal (recipient, 2001) Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 2003)
Key Organisations *	Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (fellow) Student Christian Movement (University of Melbourne) (member) Australian Dictionary of Biography (ANU) (author, 1975-2013) Australian Dictionary of Biography (ANU) (Editorial Board chair, 1977-1996)
Workplaces *	University of Adelaide (history) (academic, 1956-1962) Australian National University (history) (academic, 1962) University of Papua New Guinea (academic, 1967-1975) University of Papua New Guinea (vice-chancellor, 1972-1975) Australian National University (history) (academic, 1975-1999) Australian National University (Research School of Pacific Studies) (academic, 1975-1999)

* Dates are approximate