[Editor: This obituary for Thomas Richard Roydhouse was published in The Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW), 1 June 1943.]
Mr. T. R. Roydhouse.
Mr. Thomas Richard Roydhouse, a veteran Sydney journalist, who was associated with many public movements, died at his home at Strathfield on Thursday night, aged 80 years.
After having served on newspapers in various parts of New Zealand, Mr. Roydhouse, who was born in Wales, went to Melbourne in 1888, and served on the Melbourne “Herald.” Later he came to Sydney and was a special writer for the “Daily Telegraph.”
In collaboration with Mr. H. J. Taperell, Mr. Roydhouse wrote the first book devoted to the New South Wales Labor party. He wrote other books, including “The Land and the People” and “The Colored Conquest.” In October, 1893, he was appointed to control the “Sunday Times” group of papers and remained in that position for 20 years. For a number of years he wrote “Sydney Day by Day” for the Melbourne “Argus.”
Mr. Roydhouse inaugurated the Boy Scout movement in Australia. He also established the Dreadnought Fund, and the New South Wales Girl Aids, which later became the Girl Guides. He was a foundation member, and vice-president of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists.
He is survived by three sons and three daughters. The funeral took place privately at Rookwood Crematorium.
Mr. Roydhouse was an extensive property owner at Woolgoolga.
Source:
The Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW), 1 June 1943, p. 2
See also:
Mr. T. R. Roydhouse dead [obituary, 29 May 1943]
(An earlier version of this obituary, with fewer details.)
Editor’s notes:
Dreadnought = the main type of battleship used in the early 20th century, a type built with an “all-big-gun” armament design and powered by steam turbines, named after the first of its kind, the HMS Dreadnought (launched in 1906 by the United Kingdom); an advantage of using guns of just one calibre was that the gunnery officers avoided the problems in estimating the range of where shells were hitting, which occurred when ships equipped with both small and large caliber guns were firing and ranging difficulties arose when it was unclear which splashes were from which guns
Rookwood = Rookwood cemetery, also known as Rookwood Necropolis, located in Rookwood (Sydney, NSW)
See: “Rookwood Cemetery”, Wikipedia
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