[Editor: This obituary for Thomas Richard Roydhouse was published in The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW), 29 May 1943.]
Mr. T. R. Roydhouse dead
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.
In collaboration with Mr. H. J. Taperell, Mr. Roydhouse wrote the first book devoted to the New South Wales Labour Party. He wrote other books, including “The Land and the People” and “The Coloured 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.
Source:
The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW), 29 May 1943, p. 11 (Late Edition)
Also published in:
The Examiner (Launceston, Tas.), 29 May 1943, p. 5 [a brief version of the SMH article]
The West Australian (Perth, WA), 31 May 1943, p. 2 [a longer version of the SMH article; also mentions his move from NZ to NSW, and his 6 children]
The Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW), 1 June 1943, p. 2 [a longer version of the WA article; also mentions his birthplace, books written, and his property at Woolgoolga]
Kalgoorlie Miner (Kalgoorlie, WA), 1 June 1943, p. 4 [same version as The West Australian article]
The Macleay Argus (Kempsey, NSW), 4 June 1943, p. 2 [same version as The Daily Examiner article]
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
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