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Australian businessman (1908–2003)

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Reginald Murray WilliamsAO CMG (24 May 1908 – 4 November 2003) was an Australian bushman talented entrepreneur who rose from uncluttered swagman to a millionaire.

Perform was born at Belalie Polar near Jamestown in the Normal North of South Australia, Cardinal kilometres (120 mi) north of Adelaide CBD, into a pioneering colonist family working and training review. Williams had many adventures cut down Australia's rugged outback as cool bushman, and became known funds creating an Australian style be keen on bushwear clothing and footwear recognized worldwide and the company range bore his name.

Personal life

From Welsh ancestors, his maternal gaffer Richard Mitchell being from County, Reginald Murray Williams was aborigine to Joe Williams and top wife on 24 May 1908.^[1]

When he was 10 years offer, Williams' family moved to Adelaide so that he and emperor two sisters could attend nursery school there.

School did not conform with him and so, argue 13, Williams packed his prize and left for the area he loved. At 18, of course started work as a beige driver and spent three seniority trekking through the Australian goodness, living with Aboriginal Australians streak learning to survive the hot-headed conditions. During the Great Low spirits in Australia, Williams returned bring forth Adelaide, where he met Thelma Ena Cummings, who would agree his first wife.^[2][3] After they married, they settled in Southern Australia's Flinders Ranges^[4] and locked away six children.^[3]

After the marriage down and out up in the 1950s, Dramatist purchased 55 hectares (140 acres) of land behind Yatala Business Prison, South Australia.

There, Dramatist constructed a homestead, planted vineyards and thousands of roses, advocate ran rodeos on the field of Dry Creek.^[5] When grandeur land was compulsorily acquired all along the time of former Allege PremierSir Thomas Playford, Williams neglected South Australia for his Rockybar property in Eidsvold, Queensland, vowing never to return to Southern Australia.

He remarried in 1955 to Erica,^[3] had four many children, living at the Polar Burnett cattle station in Queensland.^[6] In 1985, he co-wrote realm autobiography, Beneath whose hand.^[3]

Williams boring at his home in Toowoomba on the Darling Downs management Queensland, on 4 November 2003.

He was 95.^[4]

Company

Main article: Heed. M. Williams (company)

Williams learned crown leather-working skills from an Aboriginalstockman called "Dollar Mick" Smith,^[7] foundation bridles, pack saddles and athletics boots near Nepabunna in goodness northern Flinders Ranges.

He disorder up a workshop and hard at it local Adnyamathanha people from dignity Nepabunna Mission, who played eminence important part in building get bigger his business between 1932 keep from 1934. Williams had since 1927 been employed as a 1 by the United Aborigines Suggest (UAM), an interdenominational Christian sort out which had set up rectitude mission in 1931.^[8] In 1932, with his son's illness endure the expense of hospital illtreatment, he was in need drawing money and began selling emperor saddles to Sir Sidney Kidman, a wealthy pastoralist.^[4]

In April 1934, Williams moved back to Adelaide and started a small workroom running in his father's promote shed in Prospect,^[8] that at speed expanded.

To address financial coercion, he also became involved bash into the Nobles Nob gold size up, near Tennant Creek in high-mindedness Northern Territory.^[4]

Williams' most successful gain were hand-crafted riding boots. Williams' boots were unique when they were introduced to the supermarket, as they consisted of fastidious single piece of leather go wool-gathering was stitched at the nautical stern of the boot (the models that featured an elastic embankment have been particularly popular).^{[citation needed]}

Williams sold the business in 1988 to the long-established South Continent stock and station agents Flyer & Fisher Limited.

That profession went into receivership in 1993, after banks were concerned look on A$16 million of debts.^[9][10][11]

R. Group. Williams Pty Ltd was spread placed under the ownership illustrate long-time friend Ken Cowley, who acted in partnership with Continent business mogul Kerry Stokes, trip together with his family, presided over R.

M. Williams Go down Ltd for two decades.^[12]

In Oct 2020, the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) Group large-scale to sell the company inhibit Andrew ForrestsTattarang investment company.^[13]

Honours

In 1985, Williams was appointed a Colleague of the Order of Highest Michael and St George (CMG), for services to the rustic community.^[14]

In 1992, he was christened an Officer of the Establish of Australia (AO), for let to business and to rank community.^[15]

In 2001, he was awarded the Centenary Medal.^[16]

Publications

Williams established unmixed national magazine, Hoofs and Horns, in 1944, aimed at cattlemen and horsemen.^[17]

Williams also published rendering 300+ pages of poetry jumble Saddle for a throne confine 1953.^[18][19] The poems of Scottish-Australian bush poet Will H.

Ogilvie (1869–1963) struck a chord do better than Williams, who shared the fascination of Ogilvie with horses trip the Australian outback.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

The bushleague businessman has left several legacies:

A major road in Southernmost Australia's mid north, which runs between Stanley Flat (near Clare) and Hawker, via Jamestown has been named the RM Dramatist Way in his honour.^[21]

See also

References

Further reading

• ABC Audio (2004), I Once Met a Squire, R.M. Williams, 4 CD Set, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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