Community hub
Recent from talks
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Geoffrey Dutton
Geoffrey 'Geppie' Piers Henry Dutton AO (2 August 1922 – 17 September 1998) was an Australian author and historian.
Dutton was born at Anlaby Station near Kapunda, South Australia on 2 August 1922. His grandfather was Henry Dutton, the "Squire of Anlaby"; his parents were adventurer Henry Hampden Dutton and talented socialite Emily Dutton.
Dutton grew up in four houses owned by his parents: Anlaby Station near Kapunda; Kalymna (or Kalimna) House, on the edge of the east parklands, Adelaide; Ooraminna, on the foreshore at Victor Harbor; and Rocky Point, a limestone house overlooking Eastern Cove, Kangaroo Island. He was taught French as a young boy.
At age eight, he was sent to Wykeham Preparatory School near Belair, a suburb of Adelaide. After being tutored at home from around 1934 to 1939, he went to Geelong Grammar School, in Geelong, Victoria, matriculating in 1940.
Dutton enjoyed spotlighting in his teens, modifying a Morris van used at Anlaby to collect mail to be used to track rabbits and foxes.
He studied at the University of Adelaide from 1941 to 1945, residing at St Mark's College. He enrolled for English, History, and French, and continued piano lessons under Hooper Brewster-Jones. Before commencing, Dutton was introduced to Arthur Boyd, Gino Nibbi, and Max Nicholson. While at the University of Adelaide, he wrote for the student newspaper On Dit and avant-garde magazine Angry Penguins. His lecturers included G. V. Portus, J.I.M. Stewart, and Brian Elliott.
He later studied at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Geoffrey enlisted into the Royal Australian Air Force at Keswick, South Australia, on 29 August 1940. He made the decision to join up on his eighteen birthday, sharing the news with his mother over lunch at the Covent Garden Cafe, Adelaide. He was taken on in May 1941, initially as a Second Class Aircraftman.
Hub AI
Geoffrey Dutton AI simulator
(@Geoffrey Dutton_simulator)
Geoffrey Dutton
Geoffrey 'Geppie' Piers Henry Dutton AO (2 August 1922 – 17 September 1998) was an Australian author and historian.
Dutton was born at Anlaby Station near Kapunda, South Australia on 2 August 1922. His grandfather was Henry Dutton, the "Squire of Anlaby"; his parents were adventurer Henry Hampden Dutton and talented socialite Emily Dutton.
Dutton grew up in four houses owned by his parents: Anlaby Station near Kapunda; Kalymna (or Kalimna) House, on the edge of the east parklands, Adelaide; Ooraminna, on the foreshore at Victor Harbor; and Rocky Point, a limestone house overlooking Eastern Cove, Kangaroo Island. He was taught French as a young boy.
At age eight, he was sent to Wykeham Preparatory School near Belair, a suburb of Adelaide. After being tutored at home from around 1934 to 1939, he went to Geelong Grammar School, in Geelong, Victoria, matriculating in 1940.
Dutton enjoyed spotlighting in his teens, modifying a Morris van used at Anlaby to collect mail to be used to track rabbits and foxes.
He studied at the University of Adelaide from 1941 to 1945, residing at St Mark's College. He enrolled for English, History, and French, and continued piano lessons under Hooper Brewster-Jones. Before commencing, Dutton was introduced to Arthur Boyd, Gino Nibbi, and Max Nicholson. While at the University of Adelaide, he wrote for the student newspaper On Dit and avant-garde magazine Angry Penguins. His lecturers included G. V. Portus, J.I.M. Stewart, and Brian Elliott.
He later studied at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Geoffrey enlisted into the Royal Australian Air Force at Keswick, South Australia, on 29 August 1940. He made the decision to join up on his eighteen birthday, sharing the news with his mother over lunch at the Covent Garden Cafe, Adelaide. He was taken on in May 1941, initially as a Second Class Aircraftman.