Hazel King

Alice Hazel Kelso King, known as Hazel King , (18 October 1908 – 3 December 1997) was an Australian historian who published widely and was employed as a lecturer at the University of Sydney between 1960 and 1974.

She is best remembered for her scholarship on Australian women Elizabeth Macarthur and Olive Kelso King.

By 1943 she had returned to Australia and, following her father's death, became a carer for her mother. She learned typing and shorthand and took on work assisting medical practitioners.

After World War II King, with her family commitments lower, completed a Bachelor of Arts (1953) and then Master of Arts (1956) at the University of Sydney. She was 40 years old and able to study alongside many other mature aged students, including returned service personnel, because of the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme.

Her mother died in 1956 and this enabled King to attend St Hugh's College (Oxford) in the United Kingdom. There she completed her Doctor of Philosophy in 1960 with a thesis on Richard Bourke who had been the Governor of NSW between 1831 and 1837.

Collections King's papers, including those of her father, are held at the State Library of New South Wales.

There is also a collection of biographic cuttings on King at the National Library of Australia.