Muir, Lesley

Lesley Muir has a Ph.D. in Historical Geography from the University of Sydney; her thesis, Shady Acres: Politicians, Developers and the Design of Sydney’s Public Transport System 1873-1895, was about the growth of Sydney in the late Victorian era.

With Peter Reynolds and Joy Hughes, she wrote the book, John Horbury Hunt, Radical Architect, 1838-1904, published by the Historic Houses Trust to accompany its exhibition. She is Vice-President of the Royal Australian Historical Society, and is immediate past President of the Horbury Hunt Club, a group interested in the history of architecture, landscape and town planning.

Lesley now works as a freelance historian, and wrote chapters on the NSW elections from 1874 to 1887 for a book published as part of the NSW Parliament Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government project. With her husband, Brian Madden, has written many local histories.