Albert Gordon Austin was born in 1918, and educated at the University of Melbourne. He served in the Australian army in the Middle East and New Guinea in World War II, and took up a lecturing position in education at the University of Melbourne. He later became a professor, retiring in 1978. He died in 1990.

Bibliography

• George William Rusden (1958)
• Australian Education, 1788-1900 (1961)
• Select Documents in Australian Education, 1788-1900 (1963)