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David Blair MA (Syd) FRSA

Director, ANPS

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David Blair, Director of the Australian National Placenames Survey from 1998 to 2006, is Senior Research Fellow in the English Department, Macquarie University.

David studied English and linguistics at Sydney University, as well as Biblical Studies and theology at a Sydney Bible college; he then had brief careers at Fisher Library and in NSW high schools before taking on a research job at Macquarie University in 1968. After 35 years of lecturing and university administration, he retired in 2003 as Dean of Humanities and Chair of the Academic Senate at Macquarie, and is now concentrates on his research in toponymy.

He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Macquarie Dictionary since its inception. He was the editor of the Pocket Macquarie and Macquarie Junior dictionaries, co-editor of the Australian Learners Dictionary, and Australian consultant for the Encarta World English Dictionary. He has also authored or edited several standard texts on linguistics and the English language. 


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