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The Order of Australia awarded to Professor W. M. O’Neil
Australia, Order of Australia, A.O., Officer’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1977, the reverse officially named ‘William Matthew O’Neil’, with full and miniature-width neck ribands, and complete with miniature award, riband bar, and lapel miniature, in Royal Australian Mint case of issue, some blue enamel damage to band around central medallion, otherwise extremely fine £800-£1,000
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A.O. Government of Australia Gazette 6 June 1978.
William Matthew O'Neil was born in 1912 and raised on the family sheep station on the north-west plains of New South Wales. Educated at De La Salle College, Armidale, and the University of Sydney, at university he was awarded the Lithgow Scholarship and the Frank Albert Prize in Psychology before graduating as Bachelor of Arts with first class honours and the University Medal for Psychology in 1933, and then as Master of Arts and the University Medal for Psychology in 1935.
Between 1936-1940 O’Neil served as Psychologist-in-Charge of the Vocational Guidance Section in the New South Wales Department of Labour and Industry before moving to Sydney Technical College as Vocational and Research Officer, being appointed to the McCaughey Chair of Psychology in 1945. A leading figure in the development of academic and professional psychology in Australia and a respected administrator, he was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney in 1965, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society in 1969. Regarded as one of the foremost psychologists that Australia has produced, he finally retired in 1977, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the following year’s Birthday Honours’ List. The author of several academic papers and books, he died in Sydney on 1 June 1991.
Sold with two University of Sydney Prize Medals in bronze, both by A. Wyon, both 52mm, the reverse of the first engraved ‘B.A. Examination, 1933 W. M. O’Neil, Psychology’, the reverse of the second engraved ‘M.A. Examination, 1933 W. M. O’Neil, Psychology’, both in William Kerr, Sydney, cases of issue.
Australia, Order of Australia, A.O., Officer’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1977, the reverse officially named ‘William Matthew O’Neil’, with full and miniature-width neck ribands, and complete with miniature award, riband bar, and lapel miniature, in Royal Australian Mint case of issue, some blue enamel damage to band around central medallion, otherwise extremely fine £800-£1,000
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A.O. Government of Australia Gazette 6 June 1978.
William Matthew O'Neil was born in 1912 and raised on the family sheep station on the north-west plains of New South Wales. Educated at De La Salle College, Armidale, and the University of Sydney, at university he was awarded the Lithgow Scholarship and the Frank Albert Prize in Psychology before graduating as Bachelor of Arts with first class honours and the University Medal for Psychology in 1933, and then as Master of Arts and the University Medal for Psychology in 1935.
Between 1936-1940 O’Neil served as Psychologist-in-Charge of the Vocational Guidance Section in the New South Wales Department of Labour and Industry before moving to Sydney Technical College as Vocational and Research Officer, being appointed to the McCaughey Chair of Psychology in 1945. A leading figure in the development of academic and professional psychology in Australia and a respected administrator, he was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney in 1965, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society in 1969. Regarded as one of the foremost psychologists that Australia has produced, he finally retired in 1977, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the following year’s Birthday Honours’ List. The author of several academic papers and books, he died in Sydney on 1 June 1991.
Sold with two University of Sydney Prize Medals in bronze, both by A. Wyon, both 52mm, the reverse of the first engraved ‘B.A. Examination, 1933 W. M. O’Neil, Psychology’, the reverse of the second engraved ‘M.A. Examination, 1933 W. M. O’Neil, Psychology’, both in William Kerr, Sydney, cases of issue.
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The Order of Australia awarded to Professor W. M. O’Neil
Australia, Order of Australia, A.O., Officer’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1977, the reverse officially named ‘William Matthew O’Neil’, with full and miniature-width neck ribands, and complete with miniature award, riband bar, and lapel miniature, in Royal Australian Mint case of issue, some blue enamel damage to band around central medallion, otherwise extremely fine £800-£1,000
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A.O. Government of Australia Gazette 6 June 1978.
William Matthew O'Neil was born in 1912 and raised on the family sheep station on the north-west plains of New South Wales. Educated at De La Salle College, Armidale, and the University of Sydney, at university he was awarded the Lithgow Scholarship and the Frank Albert Prize in Psychology before graduating as Bachelor of Arts with first class honours and the University Medal for Psychology in 1933, and then as Master of Arts and the University Medal for Psychology in 1935.
Between 1936-1940 O’Neil served as Psychologist-in-Charge of the Vocational Guidance Section in the New South Wales Department of Labour and Industry before moving to Sydney Technical College as Vocational and Research Officer, being appointed to the McCaughey Chair of Psychology in 1945. A leading figure in the development of academic and professional psychology in Australia and a respected administrator, he was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney in 1965, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society in 1969. Regarded as one of the foremost psychologists that Australia has produced, he finally retired in 1977, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the following year’s Birthday Honours’ List. The author of several academic papers and books, he died in Sydney on 1 June 1991.
Sold with two University of Sydney Prize Medals in bronze, both by A. Wyon, both 52mm, the reverse of the first engraved ‘B.A. Examination, 1933 W. M. O’Neil, Psychology’, the reverse of the second engraved ‘M.A. Examination, 1933 W. M. O’Neil, Psychology’, both in William Kerr, Sydney, cases of issue.
Australia, Order of Australia, A.O., Officer’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1977, the reverse officially named ‘William Matthew O’Neil’, with full and miniature-width neck ribands, and complete with miniature award, riband bar, and lapel miniature, in Royal Australian Mint case of issue, some blue enamel damage to band around central medallion, otherwise extremely fine £800-£1,000
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A.O. Government of Australia Gazette 6 June 1978.
William Matthew O'Neil was born in 1912 and raised on the family sheep station on the north-west plains of New South Wales. Educated at De La Salle College, Armidale, and the University of Sydney, at university he was awarded the Lithgow Scholarship and the Frank Albert Prize in Psychology before graduating as Bachelor of Arts with first class honours and the University Medal for Psychology in 1933, and then as Master of Arts and the University Medal for Psychology in 1935.
Between 1936-1940 O’Neil served as Psychologist-in-Charge of the Vocational Guidance Section in the New South Wales Department of Labour and Industry before moving to Sydney Technical College as Vocational and Research Officer, being appointed to the McCaughey Chair of Psychology in 1945. A leading figure in the development of academic and professional psychology in Australia and a respected administrator, he was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney in 1965, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society in 1969. Regarded as one of the foremost psychologists that Australia has produced, he finally retired in 1977, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the following year’s Birthday Honours’ List. The author of several academic papers and books, he died in Sydney on 1 June 1991.
Sold with two University of Sydney Prize Medals in bronze, both by A. Wyon, both 52mm, the reverse of the first engraved ‘B.A. Examination, 1933 W. M. O’Neil, Psychology’, the reverse of the second engraved ‘M.A. Examination, 1933 W. M. O’Neil, Psychology’, both in William Kerr, Sydney, cases of issue.
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