Hugh Stretton

Hugh Stretton

Hugh Stretton AC is an Australian historian and professor. Educated at the University of Melbourne, the University of Oxford and Princeton University. He was deputy chair of the South Australian Housing Trust for 17 years. He currently resides in Adelaide, Australia.

A portrait of Hugh Stretton by Australian artist Robert Hannaford won the Peoples Choice Award in the 1991 Archibald Prize.

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* [http://www.assa.edu.au/Directory/listall.asp?id=313 ASSA biography]


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