biography
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Crawford, Sir John (Grenfell)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1910–85)
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| biography:
| Economist and administrator, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He studied at Sydney University, and held various senior positions in agricultural and rural economics, including director of the [Australian] Commonwealth Bureau of Agricultural Economics (1945–50). He held the chair of economics at the Australian National University, Canberra (1960–7), was Vice-Chancellor there (1968–73), and Chancellor of the University of Papua New Guinea (1972–5). |
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