IDNO

T.152432.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 260. Australia. 35mm. Koda." [Poignant's manuscript]
"24. Jack McKinney's favourite view, Tamborine mountain." [Poignant's typed text]

A memorial plaque for Jack Philip McKinney, husband of Judith Arundell Wright McKinney, with a view of Tamborine Mountain in front of it. [KK 24/08/2022]

Place

Australasia; Australia; Queensland; Tamborine Mountain

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Jack Philip McKinney

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre January 1970

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.148696.RPT - T.152693.RPT were located in the drawer file of transparency sheets, numbered C1021/.

T.152413.RPT - T.152436.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/157.

Biographical reference: Judith Wright McKinney, 'McKinney, Jack Philip (1891–1966)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University:
"Jack Philip McKinney (1891-1966), bushman, soldier and author, was born in 1891 at Numurkah, Victoria, son of William Graham McKinney, a Victorian-born journalist, and his wife Lucy Jane, née Burke, who came from England. [...] From the outbreak of World War II, McKinney reflected on the question of why advances in Western thought failed to prevent further and more deadly wars. Untrained, he read philosophy, beginning with the ancient Greeks and devoting the rest of his life to the task. He contributed articles to major journals, published a preliminary book, The Challenge of Reason (Brisbane, 1950), and completed a more substantial work, The Structure of Modern Thought (London, 1971). Professor J. J. C. Smart praised the latter book for its 'fresh and original' presentation of the 'striking and important idea that knowledge is an interpersonal thing'.
McKinney was helped by his second wife Judith Arundell Wright McKinney whom he married on 13 June 1962 at the general register office, Brisbane. Survived by his wife and their daughter, and by the two sons and two daughters of his first marriage, he died on 6 December 1966 at Greenslopes, Brisbane, and was cremated with Presbyterian forms." [source: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mckinney-jack-philip-10995/text19551 KK 24/08/2022]