Max Solling was born the second child and only son of Jessie (née Webb) (1917-2017) and Rex Erie Solling (1909-1980).
Solling’s early life was spent in Bathurst and Albury in New South Wales.
[1] For his senior education Solling was educated at Newington College (1955-1959)[2] and then at the University of Sydney where he was awarded a University Sporting Blue in boxing and was Australian Universities boxing champion.
In 1972 he completed his MA on the development of nineteenth-century Glebe and he was a founding editor of the Leichhardt Historical Journal.
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