biography
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Beaglehole, John Cawte
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| male
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| lived:
| (1901–71)
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| biography:
| Writer and historian, born in Wellington, New Zealand. He graduated from Victoria University College, to which he returned in 1936 as lecturer in history, remaining there as professor of British Commonwealth history (1963–6). His life's work was the masterly Hakluyt Society edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery (1955–67), associated with which was his The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks (1962). He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1970. |
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