About Archibald Glenn
Lived 1911 – 2012 (aged 100). Archibald Glenn was an Australian industrialist.
Sir Joseph Robert Archibald Glenn, OBE (24 May 19114 January 2012 ) was an Australian industrialist and founding Chancellor of La Trobe University.
Biography Glenn was born in 1911 and raised near Sale, Victoria. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he moved after Sale High School found itself without a mathematics teacher. and was knighted in 1966. He died on 4 January 2012, aged 100.
His first wife was Elizabeth "Betty" née Balderstone, whom he married in 1939. After Betty died in 1988, he married Sue Debenham. His four children included Di Gribble, editor, publisher and deputy chair of the ABC; she predeceased him by three months.
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Who was Archibald Glenn?
Australian businessman
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Archibald Glenn was born on 24 May 1911.
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Archibald Glenn died on 4 January 2012.
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Archibald Glenn was an industrialist.
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Archibald Glenn was Australian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Archibald Glenn. https://biography.guide/archibald-glenn/
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