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Sylvan was born Francis Richard Routley in Levin, New Zealand, and his early work is cited with this surname.

He studied at Victoria University College of the University of New Zealand ( now Victoria University of Wellington ), and then Princeton University, before taking positions successively at several Australian institutions, including the University of Sydney.

From 1971 until his death in Bali, Indonesia, he was a fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra.