Richard Neville, Australian writer and editor, Died at 74

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Richard Clive Neville was born on December 16, 1941, and died on September 4, 2016.

He was an Australian writer and social commentator.

Richard came to fame as an editor of the counterculture magazine Oz in Australia and the United Kingdom in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Neville was educated as a boarder at Knox Grammar School and enrolled for an arts degree at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

And The Australian political magazine The Monthly described Neville as a “pioneer of the war on deference”.

The television drama The Trials of Oz (1991), Richard Neville was played by British actor Hugh Grant.

Richard Neville passed away at 74 years old.