Walter George Keith Duncan | |
Birth Date: | 11 July 1903 |
Birth Place: | Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia |
Workplaces: | University of Sydney University of Adelaide |
Doctoral Advisor: | Harold Laski |
Spouse: | Dorothy Mary Anderson |
Walter George Keith Duncan, (1903-1987) was an Australian academic and political scientist.[1]
Duncan was educated at Fort Street Boys' High School, Sydney, completing his education, BA and MA at the University of Sydney and PhD at the London School of Economics.[1]
Duncan returned to Australia in 1932 where he taught at the University of Sydney.[1]
Duncan joined the University of Adelaide in 1951 as the chair of history and political science.[1] Duncan retired in 1968, but in 1973 completed a previously unfinished commissioned centenary history of the University of Adelaide.[1]
In 1962, Duncan delivered the fourth in the annual series of ABC Boyer Lectures) "In Defence of the Common Man".[1]
Duncan was born on 11 July 1903 in Leichardt, Sydney, to New Zealanders George Henry Duncan and Clara Walton.[1] Duncan married Dorothy Mary Anderson in 1934, but had no children. He died on 18 December 1987.[1]