Lorna McDonald

Lorna Lorraine McDonald (née Bucknall; 10 August 1916 – 25 June 2017) was an Australian historian and author.

Early life McDonald was born at Portland, Victoria in 1916 and attended school at Mount Gambier, South Australia.

She married Hugh Fraser McDonald (1909–81), a Presbyterian minister, at the Presbyterian Church in Drik Drik, Victoria in 1938. They had three sons Donal, Roger and Gavin, all born and educated in NSW. McDonald and her husband moved to Rockhampton, Queensland in 1963.

Professional career Academic achievements Once McDonald moved to Rockhampton, she began studying externally, completing degrees from the University of Queensland.

In 1975, McDonald gained a master's degree after publishing a thesis on land settlement in the Port Curtis and Leichhardt districts of Queensland. on the history of the Central Queensland cattle industry.

After celebrating her 100th birthday in 2016, McDonald relaunched The Moving Mind: The life of Henry Arthur Kellow (1881–1935) a biography of Rockhampton Grammar School principal Henry Kellow, originally published in 1981. At the relaunch of the book, McDonald admitted she wasn't interested in writing another book, but was reading books about geology and biology as she liked to read things about subjects that she had not yet studied.