Background
DONALDSON, Charles Ian Edward was born on May 6, 1935 in Melbourne, Australia. Son of Doctor William Edward Donaldson and Elizabeth (nee Weigall) Donaldson.
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Charles Ian Edward DONALDSON
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Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne University, Magdalen College, Oxford, Merton College, Oxford.
Career
Lecturer in English, Wadham College, Oxford 1962-1969. CUF Lecturer in English, Oxford University 1963-1969. Chairman Oxford English Faculty 1968-1969.
Professor, of English, A.N.U. 1969-1991, Director, Humanities Research Centre 1974-1990.
Regius Professor, of Rhetoric and English Literature (desig.), Edinburgh University since 1991. Visiting appointments at University of California, Santa Barbara 1967-1968, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1985, Cornell University 1988, Folger Shakespeare Library 1988.
Correspondent Fellow of the British Academy.
Connections
Married 1st Tamsin Jane Procter in 1962. Married 2nd Grazia Maria Therese Gunn in 1991.
