Helen Gregory
She was born in Brisbane in 1946.
She gained a BA (Hons) from the University of Queensland and was a former adjunct professor of that institution.
In 1969, Gregory was the first Queensland woman to be offered a Rotary Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship, but was unable to take up the award.
Gregory taught in the Department of History at the University of Queensland and was an adjunct professor of the university. She also taught and in the School of Built Environment at the Queensland University of Technology.
In the mid 1970s she was a consultant historian to the private and government sectors, and is believed to have been the first graduate historian in Queensland to use her training in this way, demonstrating that privately commissioned histories could be undertaken without sacrificing academic standards or ethical integrity. She was the founder of the Brisbane History Group and the Professional Historians' Association (Queensland), the professional association which promotes the interests of consulting historians in Queensland, and maintains standards of practice.
Gregory was the author or co-author of many academic articles and studies and several entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography and, with Deborah Witnell, the chapter on the first female Chief Justice of Australia Susan Kiefel in "A woman's place : 100 years of Queensland women lawyers". In 2023 Gregory delivered the Selden Society Australia lecture in the Supreme Court of Queensland on the "Queensland Law Society: serving ‘conscientious, honest lawyers’"
Gregory became the first chair of the Queensland Heritage Council in 1992, and subsequently became director of cultural heritage in the Queensland Government's Environment and Heritage department (later renamed the Environmental Protection Agency, the first woman to be appointed to a senior executive position in that department.
In 2005 and subsequent years, Gregory was a judge of the History Book Award for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. In 2006 Gregory was a member of the independent panel that suggested the name for the Eleanor Schonell Bridge to the Lord Mayor of Brisbane and in November 2007 she was appointed to the board of trustees of Newstead House, Brisbane.
She died on 15 October 2025 following a short illness. Helen Gregory was married to Scott Gregory, and had three sons.
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