Max Solling
Max Charles Solling (OAM; b. 1942) is an Australian urban and sports historian.
Biography
Max Solling was born the second child and only son of Jessie (née Webb) (1917-2017) and Rex Erie Solling (1909-1980). His father was an accountant, and then later a bank manager, with the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney from 1926 until retirement in 1972. Solling’s early life was spent in Bathurst and Albury in New South Wales.[1] For his senior education Solling was educated at Newington College (1955-1959)[2] and then at the University of Sydney where he was awarded a University Sporting Blue in boxing and was Australian Universities boxing champion. In 1972 he completed his MA on the development of nineteenth-century Glebe and he was a founding editor of the Leichhardt Historical Journal.[3] He is also a qualified and practicing solicitor. Solling has been a resident of Glebe since 1960.
Publications
- Town and Country: A History of the Manning Valley (2014), Halstead Press, ISBN 9781920831561
- An Act of Bastardry: Rugby league axes its first club: Glebe District Rugby League Football Club 1908 to 1929 (2014), Walla Walla Press, ISBN 9781876718206
- Grandeur and Grit: A History of Glebe (2007), Halstead Press, ISBN 1-920831-38-X
- The Boatshed on Blackwattle Bay (1993), Glebe Rowing Club, ISBN 0-646-14811-7
- Leichhardt: On the Margins of the City (1997) with Peter Reynolds, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 186448408X (A social history of Leichhardt and the former municipalities of Annandale, Balmain and Glebe.
- Contributor, Oxford Companion to Australian Sport
- Contributor, Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket
Awards
- Australian Sports Medal as a local sporting historian (2000)[4]
- Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly through researching, recording and publishing the history of Glebe (2005)[5]
References
- ^ A century of banking in rural NSW. Three generations of bankers Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 185
- ^ Leichhardt Historical Journal website Archived 26 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Australian Sports Medal website
- ^ Medal of the Order of Australia website
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