Adeline May Keating. In 1919 Keating sailed for Japan to purchase toys as stock for the company.[2]
He became managing director of Myer Emporium Ltd when it formed in 1925, and took over as chairman on Myer's death in September 1934.[3] Neil himself, however, died a few months later.
Neil married Lucy Hunt in 1900, and they had a son and three daughters.
South Seas Evangelical Mission and later became co-founder of a group known as the Fellowship.[4]
The
lay canon at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.[1] Wei-Han Kuan notes that Neil was "capable and energetic both in mission societies and in diocesan affairs".[5] He was also instrumental in Myer's conversion to Christianity.[6] Neil was a close friend of C. H. Nash, and he was the prime mover in the establishment of the Melbourne Bible Institute (now the Melbourne School of Theology) in 1920, with Nash as the founding principal. Kuan suggests that Neil considered MBI "a necessary institution for the training of overseas missionaries and as an appropriate avenue for the deployment of the exiled Nash's gifts," since Nash had been forced to resign from the Anglican church.[6]
Neil was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1926 for his work as Australian Commissioner at the British Empire Exhibition.[3]
^Hellegers, Joan, "Adeline May Keating (1885–1957)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 22 December 2023
^
Weekly Times
. 22 December 1934. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
^Zwartz, Morag (2004). Fractured Families: The Story of a Melbourne Church Cult. Paranesis Publishing. p. 11.
