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Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton (5 November 1931 – 4 September 2015) was a Western Australian historian, academic and writer. ==Life== He attended Wesley College, Perth from 1943 to 1947. He published works on Australian history, authoring 13 books, his final being ''Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826''. His book, ''Daphne Street'', published by Fremantle Press, describes his early surrounds, and is an attempt to write national history at the local level.〔http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/789〕 He was a frequent contributor to radio in Western Australia and did much to bring Western Australian history and socio-political development to life. Part of his career was spent setting up an Australian studies programme at a university in England. He was Chairperson of the Western Australian Maritime Museum's Archaeology Advisory Committee. Professor Bolton was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London), Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Fellow of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society. He served as the Chancellor of Murdoch University from 2002 to 2006 In 2005, Bolton was named Western Australia's 2006 Australian of the Year. In 2008, he published a single-volume short history of Western Australia since the start of British settlement in 1826, covering the social, cultural, political and economic development of the most geographically isolated area in the world. Geoffrey Bolton died on 4 September 2015, in Perth, at the age of 83. He was married to Carol Grattan and has two sons and five grandchildren. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geoffrey Bolton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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