Professor Weston Bate OAM (1924-) is an Australian historian specialising in the history of Ballarat, Victoria. Bate was born in 1924. He served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. He studied at the University of Melbourne under Manning Clark, Max Crawford, Kathleen Fitzpatrick and John O'Brien. He taught at Brighton Grammar School, Melbourne Grammar School, Bradfield College (Berkshire), Monash and Melbourne universities. Wikipedia
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