Sir

Bruce Williams

KBE FASSA
Born(1919-01-10)10 January 1919
Warragul, Victoria, Australia
Died9 August 2010(2010-08-09) (aged 91)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
SpouseRoma Hotten
ChildrenHelen Williams
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
University of Sydney

Sir Bruce Rodda Williams KBE FASSA, (10 January 1919 – 9 August 2010) was an Australian academic and vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney.[1]

Early life

Williams was born on 10 January 1919 in Warragul, Victoria, Australia as the youngest child of William James Williams, Methodist Minister (1884-1956) and his wife, Helen Sarah Baud (1885-1967).[1][2]

Education

William was a student at Wesley College and the University of Melbourne.[1]

Career

In 1940 Williams joined the faculty of the University of Adelaide.[1] Then in 1946 he joined the faculty of Queen's University Belfast.[1] He joined Keele University In 1950, as professor of economics.[1]

From 1959 Williams was at the University of Manchester, as Robert Otley Professor of Economics, 1959–63, and then Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy, 1963–67.[1][3] He was appointed as vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney in 1967, and retired in 1981.[1]

In 1982, Williams delivered the annual series of Australian Broadcasting Corporation Boyer Lectures on "Living With Technology".

Marriage and issue

On 27 July 1942, Williams was married to Roma Olive Hotten (1916-1992) and they had five daughters. His eldest daughter Helen (b. 1945) is married to Friedrich Freiherr von Reibnitz (b. 1942), the only son of Günther Hubertus Freiherr von Reibnitz and his second wife, Countess Maria Anna Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget et Szapár (1911–1998).[4] Friedrich is also an elder brother of Princess Michael of Kent.[5]

Sir Bruce Rodda Williams died on 9 August 2010.[1]

Honours and awards

  • 1968 Elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia[6]
  • 1980 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "Services to education & to government"[7]


References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Brown, Malcolm (25 August 2010). "Steely and skilled, vice-chancellor had a talent for bureaucracy". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  2. ↑ https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00009192&tree=LEO
  3. ↑ "Williams, (Sir) Bruce Rodda". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  4. ↑ https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00009190&tree=LEO
  5. ↑ https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00009188&tree=LEO
  6. ↑ "Sir Bruce Williams". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 1968. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Prof Bruce Rodden Williams - KBE". Australian Honours. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
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