1. Kenneth Robert Minogue was an Australian academic and political theorist.
15 Facts About Kenneth Minogue
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Long residing in the United Kingdom, Minogue was a prominent part of the intellectual life of British conservatism.
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Kenneth Minogue was born on 11 September 1930 in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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Kenneth Minogue was educated in Australia, attending Sydney Boys High School and the University of Sydney.
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Kenneth Minogue wrote academic essays and books on a great range of problems in political theory.
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Kenneth Minogue first came to public attention with his 1963 book The Liberal Mind, which criticised the 'drift' toward collectivism and progressivism in Britain's post-war consensus, which he believed acted as a 'prop to the mediocre' and deprived individuals of personal initiative.
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In 1986 Kenneth Minogue presented a six-part television program on Channel 4 about free-market economics called The New Enlightenment.
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Kenneth Minogue was Senior Research Fellow with the Social Affairs Unit in London.
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From 1991 to 1993 Kenneth Minogue was chairman of the euro-sceptic Bruges Group.
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Kenneth Minogue served as president of the Mont Pelerin Society from 2010.
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Kenneth Minogue was involved with the Centre for Policy Studies and the European Foundation.
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Kenneth Minogue married firstly, Valerie Pearson Hallett, with whom he had a son and a daughter, in 1954.
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Kenneth Minogue was later married to Beverly Cohen, who predeceased him.
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Kenneth Minogue was reportedly a member of the Garrick Club and a keen tennis fan.
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Kenneth Minogue died on 28 June 2013, aged 82, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, after apparently suffering cardiac arrest on a flight returning from San Cristobal Island in the Galapagos, where he had been hosting a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society.