Record ID:
35434012 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1912-06-28
  • Hawick (Scotland)
Death:
  • 1999-12-04
  • Sydney (N.S.W.)
Associated with:
  • Australia London (England)
Lived/located in:
  • Sydney (N.S.W.)
Fields of activity:
  • Newspapers Birds--Australia
Occupations:
  • Journalists Newspaper editors Authors
Used for:
  • Pringle, John Martin Douglas, 1912-1999
  • Pringle, J. M. D. (John Martin Douglas), 1912-1999
Notes:
  • Australian accent, 1958: title page (John Douglas Pringle)
  • China struggles for unity, 1939: title page (J.M.D. Pringle)
  • Wikipedia 26 March 2023: (John Martin Douglas Pringle, usually known as John Douglas Pringle (28 June 1912 – 4 December 1999) was a Scottish-born journalist and author who moved in 1952 to Australia, wheree he became a prominent newspaper editor and social commentator. He was born in the town of Hawick, Roxburghshire, and studied at Lincoln College, Oxford. In August 1934 he joined The Manchester Guardian; he found his talent lay as a leader writer and editor. He moved to Australia for his health, having been affected by tuberculosis, edited the Sydney Morning Herlad 1952-1957 but was frustrated by the owners' control. He was deputy editor of the Observer in London 1958-1963; back in Australia, he edited the Sydney Morning Herlad again 1965-1970, then retired from fulltime journalism, continuing to write articles and several books, also pursuing his interest in ornithology, writing three books on Australian birds. He died on 4 December 1999, in Sydney.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Douglas_Pringle
Local system number:
  • 000000436405
  • abv00371719
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc