Guide to the Papers of F.L. McDougall, 1903-1958

Summary

Collection number:

MS 6890

Creator:

F.L. McDougall

Extent:

0.56 metres and (4 boxes)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of F.L. McDougall, National Library of Australia, MS 6890, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

The papers comprise McDougall's letters to his family, general correspondence, articles and addresses by McDougall, newspaper cuttings, photographs and printed material. The subjects of the correspondence include relations between CSIRO and the Government, the 1930 Imperial Conference, a proposal of McDougall to establish a department to collate information and statistics, Australian politics (including the Scullin Government and Parkes By-election), the quota system for wheat and personal news.

The correspondents include Elspeth Huxley (Grant), S.M. Bruce (later Lord Bruce), Sir David Rivett, Sir Walter Elliot, Lord Beaverbrook and Neville Chamberlain.

Biographical Note:

Date	Event
1884	Born on 16 April in Greenwich, Kent. McDougall went to school in Blackheath, London
1903-05	Studied in Darmstadt, Germany
1907-09	Left England for South Africa
1909	Arrived in South Australia
1909-15	Fruit farming in Renmark, South Australia
1915	Married Madeline Joyce Cutlack on 4 September
1915-18	Served in Egypt and France with the 1st Anzac Cyclist Battalion
1918	Joined the Australian Dried Fruits Association
1922-32	Representative of the Australian Dried Fruits Association in London
1926	Awarded CMG
1926-32	A member of the Empire Marketing Board, London
1928-40	Regular adviser to Australian Delegations at the League of Nations in Geneva
1932-45	Economic Advisor to the Australian Government in London
1941-42	Worked with Australian economic missions in Washington
1943-45	Worked for the establishment of Food and Agricultural Organisation in New York
1945-58	Counsellor to the Director General and Special Assistant representing Food and Agricultural Organisation at the United Nations General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council
1958	Died in Rome on 15 February

Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, pp. 258-259Who's who in Australia 1959, p. 492

Provenance:

The collection was lent for copying by Elizabeth McDougall, the daughter of F.L. McDougall, in London in 1984.

Indexed terms

Names:

F.L. McDougall

Conditions Governing Access:

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2223830).

Conditions Governing Use:

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of F.L. McDougall, National Library of Australia, MS 6890, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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