Roy Le Messurier
| Alfred Roy Le Messurier | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Alfred Roy Le Messurier 1933.png | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Born |
19 February 1886 Semaphore, South Australia | ||
| Died |
5 October 1946 (aged 60) Fitzroy, South Australia | ||
| Playing career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1907 | Port Adelaide | 37 | |
| 1908-1909; 1911-1913 | North Adelaide | 46 (4) | |
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 1908 | South Australia | 3 | |
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Alfred Roy Le Messurier (19 February 1886 – 5 October 1946), generally known as Roy or A. Roy Le Messurier, was an Australian rules footballer and businessman in the exotic timber trade. The family name was often styled LeMessurier.
The eldest surviving son of Alfred Le Messurier,[1][2] and Jane Sinclair Le Messurier, née Neill,[3] Alfred Roy Le Messurier was born at Semaphore, South Australia on 19 February 1886.[4]
He was educated at Semaphore Collegiate School and at St Peter's College.[5]
Employment
[edit | edit source]At age 16, Roy entered his father's shipping agency, A. & E. Le Messurier, where he specialized in importing timber from Tasmania for local furniture-makers, and developed it into a significant enterprise. He became chairman of directors and also managing director of Gunnersen, Le Messurier Ltd. His directorships included S.A. Gas Company, Quarry Industries Ltd, and Cowell Brothers & Co. Ltd.[5]
He was a member of the Royal Adelaide and Mount Lofty Golf Clubs.[5]
Football
[edit | edit source]He played for Port Adelaide before the family moved to North Adelaide in 1908, and he qualified for the North Adelaide team under the electorate system. He played at North Adelaide from 1908–09 and 1910–13, playing 46 games and kicking 4 goals.
He played for South Australia at the 1908 Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival held in Melbourne.
His younger brother, Frederick Neill Le Messurier (1891-1966), also played for North Adelaide from 1908–10 and 1913–14 (playing with the Adelaide University Football Club from 1911–12).
He later re-joined Port Adelaide as a committeeman.
Family
[edit | edit source]Le Messurier married Margaret Galway Saunders (1885–1970), at Semaphore, on 17 April 1912.[6] Margaret was a daughter of William Henry Saunders (c. 1852 – 26 June 1928), town clerk of Port Adelaide and brother of A. T. Saunders.
They had three sons, and were living at 14 Martin Avenue, Fitzroy, in 1928 when his wife sought a review of the allowance he had settled on her and their children.[7] Le Messurier and his wife toured Europe and America in 1929.[8]
Their sons: (Alfred) Peter Le Messurier (born 1914), (Frederick) Lindsay Le Messurier (born 1915), and Richard Ward "Dick" Le Messurier (born 1918) were, for much of the 20th-century, South Australia's major importer and exporter of timber. They had a sizeable stake in Softwood Holdings and Timber Holdings for which, in 1987, they accepted a cash offer from CSR Limited.[9]
Death
[edit | edit source]Le Messurier died on 5 October 1946 at their home in Martin Avenue, Fitzroy, South Australia.[10]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Obituary: The Late Mr. Alfred Le Messurier: Passing of a Prominent Shipping Man, Port Adelaide News, (Friday, 17 June 1927), p.4.
- ^ The Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family guernsey-society.org.uk Retrieved 10 May 2023
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- ^ Births: Le Messurier, The (Adelaide) Evening Journal, (Monday, 22 February 1886), p.2.
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- ^ Marriages: LeMessurier—Saunders, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Monday, 10 June 1912), p.8.
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- ^ Deaths: Le Messurier, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Monday, 7 October 1946), p.14.
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]
- Australian Dictionary of Biography
- Past Players: Le Messurier, Alfred Roy, North Adelaide Football Club.
- Roy "Teddy" Le Messurier, australianfootball.com.
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