Malcolm John Leggoe Uren, (7 January 1900 – 22 July 1973) was an Australian
journalist
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Roles
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who edited the
''Western Mail'' in
Western Australia
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.
Early life
Uren was born on 7 January 1900 in
West Hindmarsh, an inner-city suburb in
Adelaide
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,
South Australia
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to
Malcolm Francis Uren and
Millicent Jane Leggoe. The Uren family then moved to
Perth
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, the capital of
Western Australia
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. Uren married
Lenora Emily Olive Stradwick (Klenk) on 25 August 1923. They had a son, Malcolm Charles Uren (Bon) (1924–2002) and four grandchildren, Leslie (1948) and Malcolm John Spencer (1951–2004), and Robin (1963) and John (1965).
Career
Uren became a
cadet journalist with the Perth-based ''Western Mail'' in 1920, and by 1941 was its editor.
Later life
In 1965 Uren was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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. He died on 22 July 1973.
Published works
*(1945) ''Sailormen's Ghosts: The Abrolhos Islands in Three Hundred Years of Romance, History, and Adventure''. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens.
*(1945) ''Waterless Horizons: The First Full-length Study of the Extraordinary Life-story of Edward John Eyre, Explorer, Overlander and Pastoralist in Australia''. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens.
*(1948) ''Land Looking West: The Story of Governor James Stirling in Western Australia''. London: Oxford University Press.
*(1959) ''A Thousand Men at War: A History of the 2/16th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF''. Willian Heinemann
*(1964) ''Edward John Eyre (Australian explorers)''. London: Oxford University Press.
*(1970) ''The City of Melville From Bushland to Expanding Metropolis''. Melville City
References
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1900 births
1973 deaths
Australian newspaper editors
Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire