(Vere) Gordon Childe (1892–1957) by Lafayette, 1928 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Peter Gathercole
Childe, (Vere) Gordon (1892–1957), prehistorian and labour theorist, was born at the rectory of St Thomas's Church in Sydney, New South Wales, on 14 April 1892, the only surviving offspring of the Revd Stephen Henry Childe (1844–1928), rector of St Thomas's Church, and his second wife, ...