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Robert Clyde Packer
Founder
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Born
Jul 24, 1879
Died
Apr 12, 1934
Robert Clyde Packer was the founder of Australia's Packer media dynasty, which used to own Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) now owns Consolidated Press Holdings and Crown Limited.
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Robert Clyde Packer
d.1934
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CHILDHOOD
1879
Birth
Born in 1879.
TWENTIES
1903
24 Years Old
Robert Clyde Packer married Ethel Maud Hewson (1878-1947) on 13 July 1903 at St. Matthias Church, Paddington, New South Wales.
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1908
29 Years Old
R.C., as he came to be called, became a journalist first in Hobart, later in Cairns, Bellingen, Macksville, Tamworth, Dubbo (where he edited The Dubbo Liberal, owned by a young widow) and finally Sydney in 1908, where he joined the staff of the Sunday Times, became editor in 1913, then sub-editor with The Sydney Sun.
THIRTIES
1918
39 Years Old
In 1918 he joined with James Joynton Smith and Claude McKay in the foundation of Smith's Weekly, followed in 1923 by the Daily Guardian (both now defunct but at the time highly profitable with circulations in the hundreds of thousands).
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FIFTIES
1930
51 Years Old
He left Smith's Weekly in 1930 in possession of a half share in the paper (he had helped purchase McKay's interest in 1927) and substantial holdings in Australian Associated Newspapers, publishers of The Telegraph and The Sunday Sun (who had bought out the Daily Guardian and Sunday Guardian in 1929).
1934
55 Years Old
He was buried on 21 May 1934 in the Packer family mausoleum at South Head Cemetery..
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