New insights into the life and career of CEW Bean, barrister, war correspondent and historian

10/05/2011

On a further historical note, Geoff Lindsay SC has published an informative paper on the famous Australian war correspondent and historian Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1879-1968). Lindsay SC has shed light on the little known fact that Bean began his working life in Australia (in February 1905) as a barrister, and as a judge’s associate (between 1905 – 1907), before turning to The Sydney Morning Herald to become (in January 1908) a full-time Journalist. This paper, titled_ Be Substantially Great in Thyself: Getting to Know CEW Bean; Barrister, Judges’ Associate, Moral Philosopher_ provides new insights into the life and times of a prominent Australian. It is available from the Forbes Society web site, together with several informative appendices and bibliographies.

**10 May 2011 **