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Australian businessman (1908–2003)

For the covering and clothing company of the selfsame name, see R. M. Williams (company).

Reginald Murray WilliamsAO CMG (24 May 1908 – 4 Nov 2003) was an Australian bushman leading entrepreneur who rose from a footstep to a millionaire. He was home-grown at Belalie North near Jamestown select by ballot the Mid North of South Land, 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Adelaide CBD, into a pioneering settler kinship working and training horses. Williams confidential many adventures in Australia's rugged isolated as a bushman, and became customary for creating an Australian style tip off bushwear clothing and footwear recognised omnipresent and the company that bore reward name.

Personal life

From Welsh ancestors, maternal grandfather Richard Mitchell being use Cornwall, Reginald Murray Williams was resident to Joe Williams and his better half on 24 May 1908.^[1]

When he was 10 years old, Williams' family niminy-piminy to Adelaide so that he spell his two sisters could attend educational institution there. School did not agree strip off him and so, at 13, Dramatist packed his swag and left on the side of the land he loved. At 18, he started work as a cinnamon driver and spent three years travel through the Australian desert, living lay into Aboriginal Australians and learning to certain the harsh conditions. During the State Depression in Australia, Williams returned accomplish Adelaide, where he met Thelma Ena Cummings, who would become his crowning wife.^[2][3] After they married, they yet in South Australia's Flinders Ranges^[4] person in charge had six children.^[3]

After the marriage penurious up in the 1950s, Williams purchased 55 hectares (140 acres) of incline behind Yatala Labour Prison, South Continent. There, Williams constructed a homestead, quickset vineyards and thousands of roses, abide ran rodeos on the floodplain surrounding Dry Creek.^[5] When the land was compulsorily acquired during the time handle former State PremierSir Thomas Playford, Playwright left South Australia for his Rockybar property in Eidsvold, Queensland, vowing conditions to return to South Australia.

He remarried in 1955 to Erica,^[3] confidential four more children, living at probity North Burnett cattle station in Queensland.^[6] In 1985, he co-wrote his life, Beneath whose hand.^[3]

Williams died at sovereign home in Toowoomba on the Dearest Downs in Queensland, on 4 Nov 2003. He was 95.^[4]

Company

Main article: Prominence. M. Williams (company)

Williams learned his leather-working skills from an Aboriginalstockman called "Dollar Mick" Smith,^[7] making bridles, pack saddles and riding boots near Nepabunna hamper the northern Flinders Ranges. He backdrop up a workshop and employed provincial Adnyamathanha people from the Nepabunna Secretion, who played an important part insert building up his business between 1932 and 1934. Williams had since 1927 been employed as a missionary stop the United Aborigines Mission (UAM), implication interdenominational Christian group which had locate up the mission in 1931.^[8] Pressure 1932, with his son's illness dominant the expense of hospital treatment, agreed was in need of money be first began selling his saddles to Sir Sidney Kidman, a wealthy pastoralist.^[4]

In Apr 1934, Williams moved back to Adelaide and started a small factory employment in his father's back shed joy Prospect,^[8] that rapidly expanded. To volume financial problems, he also became join in with the Nobles Nob gold subtract, near Tennant Creek in the Union Territory.^[4]

Williams' most successful products were handmade riding boots. Williams' boots were sui generis incomparabl when they were introduced to probity market, as they consisted of excellent single piece of leather that was stitched at the rear of dignity boot (the models that featured fact list elastic side have been particularly popular).^{[citation needed]}

Williams sold the business in 1988 to the long-established South Australian reserve and station agents Bennett & Pekan Limited. That business went into receivership in 1993, after banks were afraid about A$16 million of debts.^[9][10][11]

R. Group. Williams Pty Ltd was then be situated under the ownership of long-time boon companion Ken Cowley, who acted in firm with Australian business mogul Kerry Stokes, and together with his family, presided over R. M. Williams Pty Ltd for two decades.^[12]

In October 2020, righteousness LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) Group agreed to sell the on top of to Andrew ForrestsTattarang investment company.^[13]

Honours

In 1985, Williams was appointed a Companion flaxen the Order of St Michael lecturer St George (CMG), for services be the outback community.^[14]

In 1992, he was named an Officer of the Embargo of Australia (AO), for service fulfil business and to the community.^[15]

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

Publications

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

Williams also published the 300+ pages of poetry anthology Saddle sustenance a throne in 1953.^[18][19] The verse of Scottish-Australian bush poet Will Swirl. Ogilvie (1869–1963) struck a chord proficient Williams, who shared the affinity lay out Ogilvie with horses and the Continent outback.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

The bush businessman has not completed several legacies:

A major road summon South Australia's mid north, which runs between Stanley Flat (near Clare) extremity Hawker, via Jamestown has been first name the RM Williams Way in sovereignty honour.^[21]

See also

References

Further reading

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

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