Hugh Ennor


Sir Arnold Hughes "Hugh" Ennor was a senior Australian public servant and policymaker.

Life and career

Ennor was born in Melbourne, the son of a joiner. For schooling, he attended a local Roman Catholic school, O'Neill College in Elsternwick, Victoria and later Melbourne Technical College. He graduated from the University of Melbourne as a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in 1938, achieving a Master of Science in 1939 and a Doctor of Science in 1944 at the same university.
Ennor was the first professor appointed by the new Australian National University in Canberra in 1948.
In February 1967, Ennor was appointed Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Education and Science. He served as secretary of the science department for over ten years, in the Department of Science, the Department of Science and Consumer Affairs, and the Department of Science
He also served for a short period as Acting Secretary of the Department of Education when the Whitlam Government split the Department of Education and Science into two.
Hugh Ennor died on Friday 14 October 1977 in Canberra, aged 65. His death was just a week after his retirement from the Australian Public Service.

Awards

Ennor was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in January 1963 as a Professor of Biochemistry at the Australian National University. In June 1965 he was made a Knight Bachelor.