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William Douglass Forsyth
Male 1909 - 1993


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  • Birth  5 Jan 1909 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  3 Mar 1993  late of Canberra Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I070  Forsyths of Hamilton Victoria
    Last Modified  8 Jun 2018 

    Father  James Douglass Forsyth,   b. 19 Apr 1875, Hamilton, Victoria. Victoria Reg No 9636/1875 Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jun 1959, South Australia Reg No 886/803 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Martha Alice Lamborne,   b. 1884, Castlemaine, Casterton, Victoria. Victoria Reg No 15449/1884 Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Sep 1953, Casterton, Victoria. Victoria Reg No 20343/1953 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  1905  Victoria Reg No 1979/1905 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F19  Group Sheet

    Family  Thelma Joyce (Joy) Sherry,   d. 24 Jan 1990, Yarralumla, ACT Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  19 Dec 1935 
    Children 
    >1. Julian Douglass Forsyth,   d. 6 Jun 1994
    >2. Katherine Forsyth
    >3. Valerie Forsyth,   b. Feb 1948, Washington DC USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified  8 Jun 2018 
    Family ID  F76  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • FORSYTH William Douglass Death notice 03MAR1993 Death 84 late of Canberra Sydney Morning Herald 04MAR1993

      The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995)
      Mon 8 Mar 1993
      Page 12
      Obituary: WILLIAM DOUGLASS FORSYTH, QBE
      A distinguished diplomat
      William Douglass Forsyth, OBE, who died in Canberra on March 3, aged 84, was a distinguished diplomat who made major contributions to Australian foreign policy in the post-war years, notably in the United Nations and the advancement of the peoples of the South Pacific. He was a resident of Canberra for many years from 1942.
      Bill Forsyth, as he was known, was born at Casterton in western Victoria. From Ballarat High School he entered the Melbourne Teachers College as a full-time student at the University of Melbourne, where he took first-class final honours in history and political science in 1932.
      A Rockefeller fellowship took him to Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his B. Litt. degree, and wrote his book The Myth Of Open Spaces, which questioned the ability of Australia to absorb vast numbers of immigrants. From 1942 until his retirement in 1969 he was an officer of the Department of External (Foreign) Affairs in Canberra and abroad.
      He was a member of the Australian delegation to the founding conference of the United Nations at San Francisco in 1945 and returned to become bead of the newly-formed Pacific Branch of the Department.
      In 1947 he was appointed Counsellor in Australia's Embassy to the United States. Again a delegate to a long series of United Nations General Assembly sessions, he also represented Australia on the UN Trusteeship Council, charged with the advancement of the inhabitants of the UN Trust Territories, including New Guinea, Papua and Nauru.
      Mr Forsyth played a leading part in the six-power South Seas Conference in Canberra in 1947 which established the South Pacific Commission, and a year later was appointed the commission's first Secretary-General, resident at Noumea, for a three-year term.
      From 1951 to 1956 he was Australia's Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York, involved in all aspects of its work.
      On return to Canberra he served as an Assistant Secretary in External Affairs and then as Ambassador to South Vietnam and Minister to Laos, and once again, from 1963 to 1966, as Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission. His last post was Ambassador to Lebanon.
      He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1955.
      Bill Forsyth is survived by two daughters, Katherine and Valerie, and a son, Julian.