Obituaries Australia

3 August, 1940
Holt, Wrexham, Wales

21 September, 2018 (aged 78)
London, Middlesex, England

• Welsh

• academic (1964-1967) South Australia, Australia
• economist (1964-1967) South Australia, Australia
• academic (1971-2012) South Australia, Australia
• economic historian (1971-2018) South Australia, Australia
• historian (general) (1971-2018) South Australia, Australia

• Book Award (Scottish Arts Council) (recipient, 1982)
• Scottish History Book of the Year (recipient, 1999)
• NSW Premier's Literary Award (recipient, 2009)
• Historian of the Year (History Council of South Australia) (recipient, 2012)

• Eric Richards Symposium in British and Australasian History (Flinders University, SA) (eponym)

• Australian Dictionary of Biography (ANU) (author, 1974-2014)
• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (fellow, 1984-2018)
• Australian Academy of the Humanities (fellow, 1986-2018)
• Royal Historical Society (UK) (fellow, 1991-2018)
• Gaelic Society of Inverness (member, 1998-2018)

• University of Adelaide (economics) (academic, 1964-1967)
• Flinders University (history) (academic, 1971-2012)