Stephen Henry Roberts

Sir Stephen Henry Roberts CMG (16 February 1901, in Maldon, Victoria – 1971) was an Australian academic, author, historian, international analyst and university vice-chancellor. He attended Castlemaine High School and Melbourne Teachers' College before winning a scholarship to the University of Melbourne, where in 1921 he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts, in 1923 a Master of Arts, and in 1930 and a Doctor of Letters. He had studied in the history department of Professor Sir Ernest Scott, and after graduating with first-class honours won Wyselaskie scholarships in English constitutional history and political economy, and the Dwight prize in sociology. In the 1930s Roberts became an international analyst and public lecturer, and wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald on diplomatic and political matters; later during World War II he was the newspaper's war correspondent. He was also associated with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, the Sydney group of the Round Table, and the Institute of Pacific Relations.