Marjorie Jean Tipping

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(26 March 1917 – 28 September 2009) was an Australian historian and patron of community services.

Biography

The daughter of John Alexandra McCredie and Florence Amelia Paterson, she was born Marjorie Jean McCredie in Melbourne, Australia, and grew up in

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and

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. She studied at the Presbyterian Ladies' College and

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. In 1942, she married journalist Bill Tipping. Tipping's works focus on the history of art and colonial Australia, and include ''Eugene von Guerard's Australian Landscapes'' (1975) ''Ludwig Becker: Artist & Naturalist with the Burke & Wills Expedition'' (1978), ''Melbourne on the Yarra'' (1978) and ''Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia'' (1988). She also contributed to the

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. Tipping was the first woman to earn the degree of Doctor of Letters by examination from the University of Melbourne, and was awarded an MBE. Tipping has contribute to many community organisations, including as first woman president (from 1972) of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and as a patron (with

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and Governor of Victoria

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) of EW Tipping Foundation (a social justice and human rights organisation named for her late husband). Tipping was made a Fellow of the

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(1968) and appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (13 June 1981), for her contribution to the Arts.

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* * 1917 births 2009 deaths Members of the Order of the British Empire Academics from Melbourne Historians of Australia Australian women historians Women art historians Australian art historians 20th-century Australian historians 20th-century Australian women writers {{art-historian-stub