Wilfrid Prest

Born and schooled in Melbourne, after post-graduate study in Oxford, Wilfrid Prest AM moved to Adelaide, where he has lived and worked for more than fifty years and is now Emeritus Professor of History and of Law. Besides contributing to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The Oxford Companion to Australian History and the Journal of Australian Studies, he has edited a history of History at the University of Adelaide.