Джон Табер Валланс: Биография австралийского ученого и библиотекаря

Australian scholar and library administrator (born 1958)
John Taber Vallance (born 20 June 1958) is an Australian classical scholar and school and library administrator. He was appointed to the position of State Librarian and Chief Executive at the State Library of New South Wales in 2017. He was Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School from 1999 to 2017.

Vallance is the son of the Australian geologist Thomas George Vallance, and his mother was Hilary Brinton Krone. He was born and grew up in Sydney and from his early years was interested in chemistry and electronics. Music was an early passion, his first paid work was playing harpsichord for classical music groups in Sydney. After graduating from the University of Sydney, Vallance studied at the University of Cambridge, England where he was awarded the Jebb Scholarship (1980), the Craven Scholarship and Studentship (1982). He also received the Brian Runnett Prize in Music from St John's College, Cambridge (1981). The National Art School's annual Dr John Vallance Prize for Sculpture is named for him. In 1985 he married Catherine du Peloux Menage and they have two children. In 1990 he published The Lost Theory of Asclepiades of Bithynia and Marshall Clagett’s Greek Science in Antiquity Thirty Five Years Later. From 1994 to 1999 he was Head of Classics at Sydney Grammar School. The portrait consisting of 11,000 blocks was selected as a finalist work in the 2017 Archibald Prize.

Vallance served as a member of the Library Council of NSW between 2008 and 2016 and as a Trustee of the State Library Foundation. He was a non executive director of the National Art School between 2013 and 2017, In 2017 he was appointed State Librarian and Chief Executive of the State Library of New South Wales. Vallance was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 Australia Day Honours for his "significant service to education, to library services and programs, and to the arts".