R. C. Packer
R. C. Packer | |
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Born | Robert Clyde Packer 24 July 1879 Australian Associated Newspapers |
Spouse |
Ethel Hewson (m. 1903) |
Children |
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Parent(s) | Arthur Howard Packer Margaret Fitzmaurice Clyde |
Relatives | Packer family |
Robert Clyde Packer (24 July 1879 – 12 April 1934), known as R. C. Packer, was a journalist,
Early life
Packer was born in
Augusta was the granddaughter of Scotland's famous fiddler and composer of antiquity, Niel Gow of Dunkeld. Her father was Nathaniel Gow, a highly regarded musician and composer himself, who had a shop in Princes Street, Edinburgh in the early to mid-1800s.
Career
R.C., as he came to be called, became a journalist first in
Personal life
Robert Clyde Packer married Ethel Maude Hewson (1874–1947), the youngest daughter of Rev. Frank Hewson, on 13 July 1903 at St. Matthias Church, Paddington, New South Wales.[2] They had two children; Frank Packer (1906–1974) and Kathleen Mary Packer (1910–2000), known later as Lady Stening, wife of Sir George Stening (1904–1996).
Death
Packer died of heart failure at age 54 while driving the
According to Gerald Stone, in Compulsive Viewing, the Packer fortune is reputed to have been founded on a stroke of luck, when he found 10 shillings at a Tasmanian race track and put it on a winning horse at twelve to one. It was enough to pay his way to the mainland, to begin his newspaper career.
References
- ^ Blaikie, George (1967). Remember Smith's Weekly?. London: Angus & Robertson.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 4 August 1906. p. 10. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^ "Death of Mr. R.C. Packer". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 April 1934. p. 19.
- ^ "Funeral Notice: Robert Clyde Packer". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 May 1934. p. 13.
- ^ "Packer Estate, Sydney". The Canberra Times. 29 August 1934. p. 2.
- ^ "Mrs. E.M. Packer Dead". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 April 1947. p. 5.
- ^ "OBITUARY, Mrs. Ethel M. Packer". The Argus. Melbourne. 5 April 1947. p. 4.