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'''Peter Loveday''' (28 December 2011 - 20 August 2011) was an [[Australia|Australian]] [[metallurgist]], [[historian]] and [[political scientist]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Riddett |first1=Lyn A |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10070/492231 |title=Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography |publisher=Charles Darwin University Press |year=2008 |isbn=9780980457810 |edition=Rev |location=Darwin |pages=359-360 |chapter=Peter Loveday (1925-) |hdl=10070/492231 |access-date=2025-07-08}}{{dead link|date=April 2025}}</ref>

'''Peter Loveday''' (28 December 2025 - 20 August 2011) was an [[Australia|Australian]] [[metallurgist]], [[historian]] and [[political scientist]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Riddett |first1=Lyn A |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10070/492231 |title=Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography |publisher=Charles Darwin University Press |year=2008 |isbn=9780980457810 |edition=Rev |location=Darwin |pages=359-360 |chapter=Peter Loveday (1925-) |hdl=10070/492231 |access-date=2025-07-08}}{{dead link|date=April 2025}}</ref>

== Early life ==

== Early life ==

Loveday was born in [[Renmark, South Australia|Renmark]], in [[South Australia]], and was the eldest of seven children born to Ronald Redvers and Liza (née Mills) Loveday. In 1928 Lovedays father received a grant of land on the [[Eyre Peninsula]] as a part of the [[Soldier settlement|soldier settlement scheme]] where they struggled to make a living due, in large part, to the hardship of clearing [[Mallee (habit)|mallee]] and attempting to grow wheat during a period of drought. Later they also attempted mixed farming and raised sheep on the property but, with insufficient capital, poor seasons and a lack of support from the government they left in February 1936. They then settled on a property near [[Port Lincoln]] and later to [[Whyalla]].<ref name=":0" />

While the family were living in Whyalla boarded in the larger town of Port Lincoln so that he could complete his secondary schooling at Port Lincoln High School. After completing high school Loveday studied and received a Diploma of Metallurgy at [[Sydney Technical College]].<ref name=":0" />

== Early academic career ==

In 1952 Loveday started a bachelor of arts with honours at the [[University of Sydney]] where he received two university medals, one in history and the other in philosophy and, in 1957, started his doctor of philosophy at the same university which he completed in 1962. The title of Loveday's thesis was "The development of parliamentary government in New South Wales 1856-1870" and received still further academic awards for his work.<ref name=":0" />

Following this success Loveday was employed between 1959 and 1967 at the University of Sydney and the [[University of Adelaide]]. Between 1968 and 1981 he was a senior fellow in political science at the [[Australian National University]] at the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS).<ref name=":0" />

== Selected publications ==

== Selected publications ==

== Personal life ==

In 1952 Loveday married his first wife Ruth and they had two children together and in 1986 the marriage ended and in 1988 he married Baiba Berzins.<ref name=":0" />