FORMER PRIVATE SECRETARY
PROFESSOR OF FINE ARTS (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 30. A former private secretary to the Prime Minister of Britain, Mr Attlee, and before that to Sir John Anderson and Lord Woolton, Mr Joseph T. Burke, arrived in Auckland in the Marine Phoenix en route to Melbourne, whbre he is to take up the first professorship of fine art at Melbourne University. He is accompanied by his Canadian wife and four-year-old son.
Educated at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and Yale University, Mr Burke, who is 33, joined the staff of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, where his particular field of work was English painting of the eighteenth century, especially that of William Hogarth. On the outbreak of war he was seconded to the Ministry of Home Security and became, private secretary successively to Sir John Anderson, Lord Woolton ,and Mr Attlee.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26349, 2 January 1947, Page 6
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