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Australian rules footballer and businessman

Australian rules footballer
Alfred Roy Le Messurier
Personal information
Date of birth (1886-02-19)19 February 1886
Place of birth Semaphore, South Australia
Date of death 5 October 1946(1946-10-05) (aged 60)
Place of death Fitzroy, South Australia
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1907 Port Adelaide 37
1908-1909; 1911-1913 North Adelaide 46 (4)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1908 South Australia 3
Career highlights
  • North Adelaide vice captain (1911, 1913)
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Alfred Roy Le Messurier (19 February 1886 – 5 October 1946) was an Australian rules footballer and businessman.

Family

The son of Alfred Le Messurier, and Jane Sinclair Le Messurier, née Neill, Alfred Roy Le Messurier was born at Semaphore, South Australia on 19 February 1886.

He married Margaret Galway Saunders (-1970), at Semaphore, on 17 April 1912.

Education

He was educated at Semaphore Collegiate School and at the Collegiate School of St Peter.

Employment

At 16, Roy entered his father's shipping agency, A. & E. Le Messurier, where he specialized in importing timber from Tasmania for local furniture-makers and developed it into a significant enterprise.

Football

He played for Port Adelaide before the family moved to North Adelaide in 1908, and he qualified for the North Adelaide team under the electorate system. He played at North Adelaide from 1908–09 and 1910–13, playing 46 games and kicking 4 goals.

He played for South Australia at the 1908 Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival held in Melbourne.

His younger brother, Frederick Neill Le Messurier (1891-1966), also played with North Adelaide from 1908–10 and 1913–14 (playing with the Adelaide University Football Club from 1911–12).

Le Messurier later re-joined Port Adelaide as a committeeman.

Death

He died at Fitzroy, South Australia on 5 October 1946.

See also

Footnotes

  1. Obituary: The Late Mr. Alfred Le Messurier: Passing of a Prominent Shipping Man, Port Adelaide News, (Friday, 17 June 1927), p.4.
  2. The Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family guernsey-society.org.uk Retrieved 10 May 2023
  3. "Family Notices". Express and Telegraph. 8 July 1880. Retrieved 10 May 2023 – via Trove.
  4. Births: Le Messurier, The (Adelaide) Evening Journal, (Monday, 22 February 1886), p.2.
  5. Marriages: LeMessurier—Saunders, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Monday, 10 June 1912), p.8.
  6. "Mr. A. R. LeMessurier Dies After Illness". Advertiser. 7 October 1946. Retrieved 10 May 2023 – via Trove.
  7. Deaths: Le Messurier, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Monday, 7 October 1946), p.14.

References

External links

South Australian Team – 1908 Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival
Western Australia 8.11 (59) defeated South Australia 8.5 (53), at Melbourne Cricket Ground, 22 August 1908
Victoria 10.15 (75) defeated South Australia 2.14 (26), at Melbourne Cricket Ground, 26 August 1908
South Australia 16.20 (116) defeated Tasmania 7.7 (49), at Melbourne Cricket Ground, 29 August 1908


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