Fellows

Nominations for the 2024 RHSV Fellowships close on Thursday 28 March, 2024 at 5pm (AEDT) and will be announced at our AGM on Tuesday, 28 May 2024.

A Fellow should have made a distinguished contribution to the history movement such as through a body of significant publications or curation of exhibitions and in some way enhanced the standing of the RHSV. Fellows should have some recognisable academic, administrative or leadership skills which have been devoted to the cause of history in Victoria.

A Fellow shall be a member of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria or an affiliated Member Society of ten (10) years standing who has rendered conspicuous service to the RHSV or one or more of its affiliated Member Societies, and to history.

Any member  of the RHSV shall have the right to nominate an Individual Member or a member of an affiliated Member Society for election as a Fellow. Nominations shall be lodged not less than two (2) months prior to the RHSV Annual General Meeting. There is no specific application form however, in making a nomination, the nominator should submit no more than 500 words outlining the contribution and service of the nominee as outlined above. The nominator should also provide their contact details as the nominator is the person contacted for all correspondence regarding the nomination. Nominations should be emailed or posted to the Executive Officer, Rosemary Cameron on executive.officer@historyvictoria.org.au

Fellows are elected at the RHSV’s annual general meeting in May of each year.

The Fellowship Committee shall consist of those RHSV Fellows who are also members of the RHSV Council. All nominations of Fellows shall be submitted to the Fellowship Committee which shall consider such nominations and advise the Council of such nominations as it recommends for election.

The Council shall consider such recommendations and shall then submit to the next Annual General Meeting for election the recommended nominees as it thinks fit provided that there shall be no more than three (3) nominations submitted to election in any one year.

Once elected as Fellows the full rights and privileges of membership of the RHSV are available to the Fellows for life provided that Fellows elected before 1 January 1993 shall retain these rights and privileges without payment.

2023

none awarded 

2018

None

2017

Dr Dianne Reilly

2016

Emeritus Professor Richard Broome

2015

None

2014

Dr Robert Barnes
Lenore Frost

2013

Prof Bill Russell

2012

Dr Judith Smart

2011

Richard Barnden
Allan Willingham

2010

Dr Peter Yule

2009

None

2008

Joan Hunt
Dr Gary Presland
Carole Woods

2007

None

2006

Dr Mimi Colligan
John Lahey

2005

Assoc Prof Donald Menzies Gibb
Dr Richard Morton

2004

Judith Bilszta
Valda Cole

2003

None

2002

None

2001

Susan Priestley

2000

John Murphy

1999

Assoc Prof Donald Stuart Garden

1998

None

1997

Prof John Rickard

1996

None

1995

Dr John Frederick Lack
Dr Andrew Grant Ferguson Lemon

1994

None

1993

None

1992

None

1991

Prof Weston Bate
Ian Woodroffe
William James Morrow

1990

Prof Gregory Moore Dening

1989

None

1988

Ian Wynd

1987

Albert Oscar Smith

1986

John Irving
W Dudley Sheppard

1985

Howard B Whittaker
Angus E Wishart

1984

James Callender Edwin Campbell
Vada Moore

1983

Margaret Carnegie
Sir Ronald East

1982

Joan Mary Gillison
Barbara D Nixon

1981

William John Cuthill
Barbara J Savill

1980

John William Payne

1979

Lena May (Maisie) Fornari
Marcia Maxwell

1978

Lt Col Horace Cecil Lee-Archer
Douglas Percival Keep

1977

Joyce Nicholson
Ellie V Pullin

1976

John David Adams
John Edmund Menadue

1975

Patricia Reynolds (later Wilkie)
Herbert Eric Rundle

1974

Hugh McDonald Anderson
Mary Turner Shaw

1973

Harley Wiliam Forster
Prof Alan George Lewers Shaw
Dr Murray Linton Verso

1972

None

1971

Lady Flora Marjorie (Marnie) Bassett D.Litt

1970

Leslie James Blake
Rothwell Grant (Ross) Holloway

1969

Lt Gen Rudolph Bierworth
Dr Alan Geoffrey Serle

1968

Sir John Vincent William Barry
Dr Marjorie Tipping

1967

Prof Geoffrey Norman Blainey
Maj Edwin Warren Owen (Warren) Perry

1966

None

1965

Dr Francis James Corder
Thomas Meek Ramsay

1964

Ian Francis McLaren
Eric Wallace Moorhead

1963

None

1962

Noel Fulford Learmonth
Dr Roland Ravenscroft Wettenhall

1961

None

1960

Dr Philip Lawrence Brown
Dr Colin MacDonald

1959

None

1958

Arthur James Hopton

1957

None

1956

None

1955

None

1954

Howard Spencer McComb
Victor Henry Miller

1953

George Richard Leggatt
John McKellar

1952

Alan Thomas Latham
John Kinmont Moir