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Australian academic and demographer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilfred David "Mick" Borrie CBE FASSA FACE (2 September 1913 – 1 January 2000) was a New Zealand-born Australian demographer and academic.[1]
W. D. Borrie | |
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Born | Waimate, New Zealand | 2 September 1913
Died | 1 January 2000 86) | (aged
Spouse | Alice Hazel Muller |
Academic background | |
Thesis | The military defence of New Zealand, 1850-1914 (1936) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Australian National University |
Doctoral students | Lloyd Robson John Caldwell |
Borrie was educated at Waitaki Boys' High School, Oamaru, completing his education at the University of Otago and University of Cambridge.[2][1]His Master's thesis The military defence of New Zealand, 1850–1914, was completed at Otago in 1936.[3] Borrie was president of the Otago University Students' Association in 1936.
Borrie moved to Sydney in 1941 where he taught Social History at the University of Sydney until 1947.[2][1]
Borrie joined the Australian National University in 1948.[1] Borrie founded the Department of Demography in 1952, where from 1957 he was Professor of Demography and Chair of Demography, the first such worldwide.[2][4] He retired in 1978.[1]
In 1961, Borrie delivered the third in the annual series of ABC lectures (renamed the Boyer Lectures) on "The Crowding World".
Borrie, keen to extend population studies throughout Australia, encouraged the formation of the Australian Population Association (APA) in 1980.[5] Borrie remained patron of the APA until he died.[1]
Borrie was born on 2 September 1913 at Waimate, New Zealand, the son of Peter William Borrie and Isabella Doig.[2] Borrie married Alice Hazel Muller in 1941, and had one daughter.[1] He died on 1 January 2000.[6]
"The W.D. Borrie Prize is awarded to the best student paper on a population-related topic".[5]
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