 Geoffrey Serle

Alan Geoffrey Serle (10 March 1922 – 27 April 1998), known as Geoff, was an Australian historian, who is best known for his books on the colony of Victoria; "The Golden Age" (1963) and "The Rush to be Rich" (1971) and his biographies of John Monash, John Curtin and Robin Boyd.Serle was born on 10 March 1922, in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn, the son of Percival Serle and Dora, née Hake.