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Name	Peter Ryan
Born	4 September, 1923 Glen Iris, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	13 December, 2015 (aged 92) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Hasluck, Paul Meernaa (friend) Dix, Alexander Thomas (university friend) Cannon, Michael Montague (work colleague) Clark, Charles Manning (colleague)
Education *	Malvern Memorial Grammar School (Melbourne) (student, 1935-1939) University of Melbourne (student, 1946)
Occupation or Descriptor *	soldier (1941-1945) Federal, Australia essayist (1950-2015) Victoria, Australia book publisher (1955-1989) Victoria, Australia columnist (1955-2015) Victoria, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (soldier)
Awards	Military Medal (recipient, 1944)
Clubs *	Savage Club (Melbourne) (member)
Key Organisations *	Nation Review newspaper (columnist)
Workplaces *	Atlas Publications (publisher) Supreme Court of Vic (board of examiners, ?-2002) ICI Australia (employee, 1958-1962) Melbourne University Publishing (director, 1962-1989) Quadrant (columnist, 1993-2015)

* Dates are approximate

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