Sir Joseph Robert Archibald Glenn,

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(24 May 19114 January 2012) was an Australian industrialist and founding

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Biography

Glenn was born in 1911 and raised near

Sale, Victoria Sale is a city situated in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia and the council capital of the Shire of Wellington. It had an estimated population of 15,305 in 2022 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The total population in ...

.David Balderstone, obituary: "Helped set up unis, headed ICI", ''The Age'', 28 January 2012, p. 27 He was educated at

Scotch College, Melbourne Scotch College is a private, Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spri ...

, where he moved after Sale High School found itself without a mathematics teacher. He studied engineering at the

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and later in London. He joined ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries Australia, now known as

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) where he became managing director for 25 years, retiring in 1973, and where he was Chairman for 10 years. During World War II he worked alongside

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, who was in charge of war-related industry as Director-General of the

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. He was Chairman of the Scotch College Council from 1963 to 1981, and

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Council from 1976 to 1981. He was appointed an Officer of the

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(OBE) in 1965 and was knighted in 1966. He died on 4 January 2012, aged 100. His first wife was Elizabeth "Betty" née Balderstone, whom he married in 1939. After Betty died in 1988, he married Sue Debenham. His four children included Di Gribble, editor, publisher and deputy chair of the ABC;Kenneth Stanley Inglis, Whose ABC?: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983–2006
/ref> she predeceased him by three months.

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