James Waite Morgan

James Waite Morgan was born in 1932 and grew up in Adelaide, attending St Peter’s College, followed by five years at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, Inns of Court. Returning home, he took up undeveloped land just over the Victorian border, and a first marriage produced three sons. Over thirty-five years he ran seven properties, including three thousand square miles of the Mutooroo Pastoral Company. In 1990 he gave up farming and lived in and about Melbourne with his second wife, their daughter and occasionally two stepsons. He has written many columns and essays and has published four novels. He passed away in July, 2018.