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P H R Sargeant

Also known as: P H R Sargeant; primary name: Sargeant, Philip Harold R
Details: individual; architect; Australian; Male
Life dates: 1932-2008
Biography: Vendor in 1961 of three Australian Aboriginal bark paintings to the British Museum. Also source of bark paintings at Liverpool Museum acquired same year. Educated at Scotch College, Melbourne and Trinity College, University of Melbourne where he studied architecture. Went to London and Europe in 1960. Returned to Melbourne in 1964 to set up architecture practice. Co-designed Benalla Art Gallery and McLelland Gallery in Victoria, Australia. Also, painter, poet and actor. In 1994 he published Something in Between an anthology of poems and occasional verse. Foreword was written by a friend of his, Barry Humphries, who wrote: ‘From the first he wore his many talents lightly and was never taken as seriously as he deserved, since he regularly committed that most unforgivable solecism: he made the difficult look easy.’
Bibliography: Obituary ' A life of many talents lived to the full'. The Age. Melbourne, 28 April 2008 Obituary. Great Scot. Scotch College, Melbourne, 2008.