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[[File:Zelman Cowen.jpg|thumb|Cowen in 1968]] '''Sir Zelman Cowen''' {{Small|[[Knight of the Order of Australia|AK]] [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George|GCMG]] [[Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order|GCVO]] [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|PC]] [[Queen's Counsel|QC]]}} (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2011) was an [[Australia]]n [[legal]] [[scholar]] and [[university]] [[administrator]]. He served as the 19th [[Governor-General of Australia]] from 1977 to 1982, under [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Malcolm Fraser]]. He was the second [[Jewish]] person to be Governor-General of Australia (the first being [[Isaac Isaacs|Sir Isaac Isaacs]]). He also served as the [[Provost]] of [[Oriel College, Oxford]] from 1982 to 1990. Before this, he was the [[Vice-Chancellor]] of the [[University of New England (Australia)|University of New England]] (1966–1970) and the [[University of Queensland]] (1970–1977). Cowen was born in [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] to a [[Jewish]] family. His father from [[Belarus]] and his mother was Australian. In 1945, he married to Anna Wittner. The couple had four children. Cowen had [[Parkinson's disease]] in his later years of life. He died on 8 December 2011 in [[Toorak, Victoria]], at the age of 92.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/sir-zelman-farewelled-on-triumphal-note/news-story/900b1413b3b1ce0d4504e59c15799986|title=Former Governor-General Sir Zelman Cowen farewelled on triumphal note|work=[[The Courier-Mail]]|date=14 December 2011|access-date=21 September 2018|first=Kellee|last=Nolan}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * [http://sydney.edu.au/szcuf/about/tribute.shtml Zelman Cowen tribute] at the [[University of Sydney]] website {{DEFAULTSORT:Cowen, Zelman}} [[Category:1919 births]] [[Category:2011 deaths]] [[Category:Governors-General of Australia]] [[Category:Australian Jews]] [[Category:Australian lawyers]] [[Category:Deaths from P