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Children
  
1 (Veecee)

Name
  
Victor Courtney

Parents
  
Henry A. Courtney, Jr.


Born
  
27 May 1894
Raymond Terrace, New South Wales

Occupation
  
Journalist, author, and newspaper proprietor.

Spouse(s)
  
Thela Pearl Richards (m. 1937) (d.1962)

Died
  
December 1, 1970, Mount Lawley, Australia

Victor Desmond Courtney (27 May 1894 – 1 December 1970) was a Western Australian journalist and newspaper editor. From small beginnings in a partnership (with Jack Simons) in a weekly sporting newspaper, The Call, through to a Saturday-evening paper, The Mirror, Courtney ended up as the managing director of The Sunday Times and owner of a network of thirty regional newspapers.

Works

  • (1941) Random Rhymes, Perth, the author.
  • (1941) The man from Marble Bar [poem].First line: Satan sat by the fires of hell. in Random rhymes, 1941, p. 16

    • reprinted in Grono, William (ed) (1988) Margins : a West Coast selection of poetry, 1829-1988Fremantle, W.A. Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 0-949206-37-7. page 200.

  • (1946) Parlez vous [poem]. (first line) 'The reelers are at dinner tonight'.
  • (1948) Cold is the Marble, Melbourne : Jindyworobak.
  • (1956) All I May Tell, Sydney : Shakespeare Head Press.
  • The Life Story of J. J. Simons, 1961.
  • Perth—and All This!, 1962.

    • References

    Victor Courtney Wikipedia
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