Australian Dictionary of Biography

23 February, 1850
Mountmellick, Laois, Ireland

16 December, 1930 (aged 80)
Stroud, New South Wales, Australia

• Irish

• Anglican
• Quaker

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• Wertheim, Hugo (business partner)
• Wunderlich, Alfred (designer/builder)
• Deakin, Alfred (colleague)

• hardware merchant (1866-1884) Victoria, Australia
• linguist (1866-1930) New South Wales, Australia
• company managing director (1884-1930) New South Wales, Australia
• employers' organiser (1884-1930) New South Wales, Australia
• importer (1884-1930) New South Wales, Australia
• orchidologist (1884-1930) New South Wales, Australia
• political activist (1890-1930) New South Wales, Australia
• piano manufacturer (1893-1930) New South Wales, Australia
• eugenicist (1903-1910) New South Wales, Australia

• Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908 (NSW commissioner)

• Australian Museum (Sydney) (trustee)
• Chamber of Manufacturers (NSW) (president)
• Chambers of Commerce of the Commonwealth of Australia (president)
• Freemasons (member, ?-1930)
• National Protection League (NSW) (president)
• New South Wales Savings Bank (trustee)
• Royal Historical Society (UK) (fellow, ?-1930)
• Royal Society of Arts (UK) (fellow, ?-1930)
• Pitt Town Co-operative Settlement (Sydney) (honorary treasurer, 1894)

• Brooks, Robinson & Co (employee, 1866-1875)
• Brooks, Robinson & Co (partner, 1875)
• Beale & Co (owner, 1884-1930)