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Anonymous in Life, Anonymous in Death: Memoirs and Biographies of Administrators

In comparison with political leaders and the more public figures in government and politics, Australian administrators are not well-served by biographies, even in the brief form found in the Australian Dictionary of Biography . There is a great reluctance to engage with these officials as ‘subjects’ for biography and reluctance among officials to consider writing autobiographical memoirs. This is true elsewhere. If we examine British history, it is well-known that Sir Geoffrey Elton, the doyen of Tudor studies, notoriously refused to write a biography of Thomas Cromwell, the minister-bureaucrat behind such a great event as the Reformation in England, although Elton’s contemporary, A.G. Dickens, eventually undertook the task in a volume still worth reading (1959).