Hector Kinloch
Hector Gilchrist Kinloch (14 December 1927 – 6 August 1993) was an American-born Australian academic and politician.
Biography
He was born Boston, Massachusetts in 1927.
He travelled to England, where he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with first class honours in history in 1949.
After graduating he served in the US Army for three years. In 1960 he moved to Australia and lectured in history at the University of Adelaide. From 1965-1968 he was Visiting Fulbright Professor of US History at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He joined the Australian National University in Canberra in 1968 and remained there until 1988.
He helped establish the National Association for Gambling Studies and was a vociferous critic of the proposed Casino Canberra. Given his anti-gambling stance he was invited by Bernard Collaery of the Residents Rally to be a candidate in the inaugural ACT Legislative Assembly election. He was elected in 1989 and retired in 1992.
He died in 1993.
Legacy
Kinloch Circuit in the Canberra suburb of Bruce is named after him, as is the Kinloch UniLodge on the ANU campus, and the north tower of ANU Fenner Hall residence.1