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Article: Michael Thwaites: (1915-2005).(passages)(Obituary)
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- Quadrant
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- January 1, 2006
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MICHAEL THWAITES, poet, naval officer and public servant, who died on November 1, 2005, aged ninety, was described, a little clumsily but accurately, by an pseudonymous weblog poster lamenting his lack of recognition in the local press as one of Canberra's "finest residents".
He was a man of high poetic gifts, great intellectual distinction, warrior's valour and shining patriotism, who did Australia one of its greatest services.
Michael Rayner Thwaites was born on May 30, 1915, and educated at Ivanhoe Grammar School, Melbourne, and Geelong Grammar. A love of poetry was aroused in him at the age of eight by his father reading him Kipling (one wonders if ...