Bland, Francis Armand

Born in Macdonaldtown, Sydney

Died from pneumonia in Burwood, Sydney

Family: Father, Charles Edward Bland (1858 to 1915), shunter, later farmer at Pambula; Mother, Eva Emily Strekz (1864 to 1946) (4 sons, 2 daughters, Francis was the eldest)

Married:1. 19 December 1908,Leichhardt, Sydney, Elizabeth Bates Jacobs (1 son later Sir Henry Bland)
2. 7 September 1912, Lillian Victoria Orr (1 son, 2 daughters, 2 sons decd)
3. 30 March 1954, Mosman, Ida Mary Warby
4. 12 December 1960, Elizabeth Bay, Gertrude Rollins

Education:
Greigs Flat School, Pambula
Kogarah Public Superior School
1897 Junior Public Examination
1901 Public Service Examination
University of Sydney, evening student
1909 BA (majoring in Philosophy)
1912 LLB Second Class Honours, Professor Pitt Cobbetts Prize for Political Science
1914 MA in Economics (evening study University of Sydney)
1916 to 1917 London School of Economics, studied Public Administration under Professor Graham Wallas
Portraits held by the University of Sydney and Parliament House, Canberra

Career:
1897 Clerk, Bosch Barthel & Co
1899 worked with N.F. Giblin, one of the Official Assignees of the Bankruptcy Court of NSW
1901 NSW Taxation Department
1903 NSW Public Service Board
1912 University Lecturer, Public Administration, University of Sydney
31 July 1913 Admitted to the NSW Bar
1914 Secretary to the Board of Examiners, Local Government Clerks and Auditors Examining Committee
1914 Part-time Tutorial Class Lecturer at Helensburgh and Wollongong for the University of Sydney
1916 to 1917 Tutorial Class Lecturer, Oxford University, Liverpool and Leeds (contact with the Workers Educational Association in England
1918 Assistant Director, Tutorial Classes, Sydney
1929 to 1930 Visiting Professor of Government, Washington Square College, New York
1933 Vice-President, Royal Institute of Public Administration, London
1935 to 1948 First Professor of Public Administration, University of Sydney
1944 to 1964 Fellow of Senate, University of Sydney
1947 Honorary Lecturer, London School of Economics
1947 Life Vice-President, NSW Branch, Royal Institute of Public Administration
1951 to 1961 MP, Federal Parliament, member for Warringah
1952 Elected Chairman, Parliamentarian Public Accounts Committee
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Publications
Extensive list of publications: see Biography file 99, University Archives, University of Sydney for an edition of the Journal of Public Administration containing articles about Bland and to a bibliography of his writings
1918 to 1935 Edited (and sometimes produced) the Australian Highway
1935 to 1947 Editor, Journal of Public Administration