Beverley Kingston FASSA (born 1941) is an Australian historian. She is author of volume 3 of the Oxford History of Australia.[1]
Beverley Rhonda Kingston was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1941,[2] but grew up in north Queensland where her father was a manager with the Commonwealth Bank. She attended Presbyterian Girls' College in Warwick, Queensland as a boarder before enrolling in the University of Queensland, from which she graduated in 1963 with a BA (hons).[3] Moving to Melbourne, she completed a PhD at Monash University in 1968.[4]
Kingston joined the University of New South Wales in 1969 and worked there for 30 years, retiring in 1999.[3]
She has been actively involved in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) since 1974, including as chair of the NSW advisory group (1994–) and as a member of the Editorial Board (1996–).[5] Her thirty contributions to the ADB include biographies of feminist Maybanke Anderson,[6] poet Dorothea Mackellar[7] and editor Beatrice Deloitte Davis.[8]
Kingston was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1994.[9]