Caterer, boxing promoter, theatre owner and newspaper proprieter. Educated at Marist Brothers' College., St Mary's, Sydney; at an early age was working with a jeweller, then at Broken Hill, helped to install machinery for the Barrier Miner in 1888; station hand; returned to Sydney., established a successful chain of pie stalls which was sold to Sargents in 1906; promoted professional cycling, secretary of Society of Wheelmen; entered boxing promotion in 1908, staged famous Tommy Burns-Jack Johnson fight, built Sydney Stadium which was sold in 1913; became a theatrical producer, acquiring the Tivoli in Melbourne in 1912; chairman of Harry Rickards' Tivoli Theatres Limited and the Green Room Company., many successes but failure in late 1920's; purchased a controlling interest in newspapers of 1916; chairman and treasurer of the Anzac Day Memorial Committee; president of Returned Soldiers' Association, British Empire League in 1919; director of Sydney Hospital; Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Benevolent Society of New South Wales and Austin Home for Incurables, Victoria; wealthy, spent considerable time in England and Europe, became insolvent and bankrupt in 1932, returned to the theatre and film making; returned to England; established milk bars; died poor; life member of Royal Australian Historical Society in 1917.