Timothy Lachlan Suttor (11 May 1926, New South Wales, Australia – 1997, Spain) was a

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noted for his work editing

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, v.11'' as well as his original book ''Hierarchy and democracy in Australia, 1788-1870 : the formation of Australian Catholicism'', published in 1965. After converting to Catholicism in his late teens and spending years studying for the priesthood under the

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, Suttor changed course in 1955, married, and began a career as a Catholic academic. He was remembered by Australian poet

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as something of a poet himself. Suttor moved to Canada in 1964 where he taught at the

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(1964-1968) and the

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(1968-1984). He died in Malaga, Spain in 1997.University of Windsor, Retirees' Newsletter, Vol. VII, No. 5, December, 1997

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