Hector Holthouse

Hector Le Gay Holthouse (1916 – 1991) was an Australian journalist and author.

[1][2][3] Holthouse was born on 15 April 1915 in Toowoomba, Queensland.

[4] While working as a chemist for the Queensland Sugar industry in North Queensland prior to the Second World War, Holthouse became interested in the history of the area.

He wrote a number of popular history books about Queensland, which were published between 1967 and 1991.

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