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Albert Hartley Maggs (1916 – 8 June 1994) was an Australian bookmaker and philanthropist. He founded the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award of the University of Melbourne in 1966, and he was posthumously honoured with the creation of the Albert Maggs Scholarship for Postgraduate Medical Research by the St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research. Maggs was born in Brunswick, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne. He was one of five children of a shopkeeper. In his youth he was a fine tennis player. He qualified for the Wimbledon Championships, and he won the .

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rdfs:comment	Albert Hartley Maggs (1916 – 8 June 1994) was an Australian bookmaker and philanthropist. He founded the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award of the University of Melbourne in 1966, and he was posthumously honoured with the creation of the Albert Maggs Scholarship for Postgraduate Medical Research by the St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research. Maggs was born in Brunswick, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne. He was one of five children of a shopkeeper. In his youth he was a fine tennis player. He qualified for the Wimbledon Championships, and he won the . (en)
birth place	Australia Brunswick, Victoria
death place	Australia Toorak, Victoria
death place	Toorak, Victoria, Australia (en)
death date	1994-06-08 (xsd:date)
birth place	Australia Brunswick, Victoria
dcterms:subject	1916 births 1994 deaths 20th-century philanthropists Australian male tennis players Australian philanthropists Australian bookmakers
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Brenton Broadstock University High School, Melbourne University of Melbourne Melbourne Colin Brumby St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne Australia 1916 births 1994 deaths 20th-century philanthropists Brunswick, Victoria Toorak, Victoria Richard Mills Australian male tennis players Australian philanthropists Albert H. Maggs Composition Award Australian bookmakers Larry Sitsky Bookmaker World War II Philanthropy Wimbledon, London dbr:All_Ireland_Men's_Championship
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education	University High School, Melbourne University of Melbourne
known for	lifelong supporter of medical research (en)
nationality	Australian (en)
notable works	founded the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award (en)
occupation	bookmaker, philanthropist, youth tennis player (en)
spouse	unmarried (en)
has abstract	Albert Hartley Maggs (1916 – 8 June 1994) was an Australian bookmaker and philanthropist. He founded the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award of the University of Melbourne in 1966, and he was posthumously honoured with the creation of the Albert Maggs Scholarship for Postgraduate Medical Research by the St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research. Maggs was born in Brunswick, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne. He was one of five children of a shopkeeper. In his youth he was a fine tennis player. He qualified for the Wimbledon Championships, and he won the . At University High School, Melbourne he studied actuarial science, which skills he later used in his bookmaking business. He served in the military in World War II. Maggs was a pianist who studied at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium, and a patron of the musical and theatrical arts. In 1966 he contributed an initial $10,000 to found the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award, an annual prize awarded by the University of Melbourne for a commissioned work. He later made more cash donations to support the award. Its recipients have included such names as Larry Sitsky, Colin Brumby, Richard Mills and Brenton Broadstock. He was also a lifelong supporter of medical research, and made many donations to St Vincent's Institute. After his death in 1966, the Institute created an "Albert Maggs Scholarship for Postgraduate Medical Research". Maggs died unmarried, aged 78, in Toorak, Victoria, on 8 June 1994. (en)
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death year	1994-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
education	University High School, Melbourne University of Melbourne
occupation	Bookmaker Philanthropy

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