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Entry type: Person
  • Occupation

    Academic, Diplomat, Writer

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birth Date

    25th March 1902

  • Death Date

    14th November 2002

Copy specific notes

Walter Russell Crocker was a diplomat, academic, writer and Lieutenant Governor of South Australia (1973-82). Crocker was High Commissioner to India (1952-55 and 1958-62), Ambassador to Indonesia (1955-56), High Commissioner to Canada (1956-58), Ambassador to the Netherlands and Belgium (1962-65), Ambassador to Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya (1965-67) and Ambassador to Italy (1967-70).

Source

Farquharson, John. Crocker, Sir Walter Russell (1902-2002), Obituaries Australia. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Accessed 17 April 2013.

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