Norman Savage papers

MLMSS 10875

fonds

approximately 1965-1990

Textual Records, Clippings

960086

0.15 metres of textual material (1 box)

Norman Wilfred Savage was born on 5 September 1913 at Concord, New South Wales.
His father was a tailor by profession, and was the Mayor of Concord Council in Sydney. His father died in the influenza epidemic of 1919 and Norman was raised, together with his three elder brothers and his younger sister, by his mother Ethel.
He attended Sydney High School, leaving school in 1929 without finishing his studies at age 16 in the midst of the Great Depression. He won a P. N. Russell Scholarship to Sydney University to study Engineering in 1935. Whilst a student at Sydney University and a member of the Sydney University Regiment he won the King's Medal in 1938.
Norman Savage died on 26 June 1998 at Concord Repatriation Hospital, Concord, New South Wales. In 1988 Norman published his autobiography entitled "A Modern Pilgrim's Progress".
Reference:
http://www.queensmedal.net/files/savage.htm (accessed 8 March 2012)

Papers of Norman Savage AM, a management consultant. Includes published and unpublished manuscripts, speech notes, correspondence and clippings from his career largely within Queensland.

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