Australian brewers

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Answer 1

Paddy Fitzgerald

Paddy FitzGerald (born 1939 in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Midleton and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1958 until 1967. His son, Ger FitzGerald, won All-Ireland medals with Cork in 1986 and 1990.

FitzGerald played his club hurling with his local club in Midleton. He enjoyed little success with the club, however, he also played with east Cork divisional side Imokilly. It was with Imokilly that he lined out in the 1968 county senior championship final. City stalwarts St. Finbarr's were the opponents and won a remarkable game by 5-9 to 1-9.

FitzGerald first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Cork minor hurling team in the 1950s. He played for two seasons in 1956 and 1957, however, Cork were beaten by Tipperary in both years.

FitzGerald made his senior debut in a National Hurling League game against Dublin in 1958. His first championship start came later that summer in a Munster quarter-final against Clare. Unfortunately, most of FitzGErald's career coincided with a sharp downturn in Cork’s hurling fortunes. He played in three consecutive Munster finals in 1959, 1960 and 1961, however, he ended up on the losing side on every occasion as the victors went on to contest the All-Ireland final.

After losing back-to-back Munster finals to Tipperray in 1964 and 1965 it looked as if FitzGerald would end his career without even a Munster medal, however, Cork hurling returned to centre stage in 1966. That year FitzGerald's side avoided Tipperary in the provincial championship and qualified for a Munster showdown with Waterford. An entertaining hour of hurling followed, however, victory went to Cork by 4-9 to 2-9 for the first time in ten years. It was FitzGerald's first senior Munster winners' medal. This victory allowed Cork to advance directly to the All-Ireland final where arch-rivals Kilkenny provided the opposition. It was the first meeting of these two great sides since 1947 and ‘the Cats’ were installed as the firm favourites. In spite of this a hat-trick of goals by Colm Sheehan gave Cork a merited 3-9 to 1-10 victory over an Eddie Keher-inspired Kilkenny. It was FitzGerald's first All-Ireland winners' medal.

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Answer 2

Hampton Gleeson

Hampton Carroll Gleeson (31 August 1834 – 10 April 1907) was a pastoralist and politician in the young colony of South Australia. He was later involved in the business of brewing beer in the neighbouring colony of New South Wales.

Hampton was the eldest son of John Hampton Gleeson, who with his brother Edward Burton Gleeson and their families emigrated to South Australia from Calcutta on the Emerald Isle, arriving in July 1838. The voyage was organised by the Australian Association of Bengal, and besides the two Gleeson families and a few other settlers (notably Judge James Donnithorne) and their servants, the ship carried a number of Indian coolies, a large quantity of Indian merchandise and horses, including "Abdallah", an Arab stallion brought out by E. B. Gleeson for breeding purposes. There were (unspecified) problems with the Emerald Isle and her master. The Association's other ship, the Guillardon, was wrecked at the mouth of the Ganges in 1840, and no further ships were despatched.

The Gleesons established a pastoral property north of Penwortham, on which Edward Burton Gleeson developed a township, naming it Clare. John Hampton Gleeson died in 1840, when his son was barely six years old.

Somehow he received on excellent education and developed a keen business sense, perhaps at his uncle's property "Inchiquin" near Clare. In 1860 he took a business trip to India, bringing back as a curio several pairs of "mangouste" or "ichneumon" (mongoose), which he presented to Mr. Elliott (his landlord at the Globe Inn) and to the Botanic Garden. He secured a contract to supply a consignment of horses to India and in the same year entered into partnership with W. D. Kingsmill as station agents, with offices in Gilbert Place, Adelaide.

He was active in a number of mining ventures in the northern Flinders Ranges: New Cornwall Mineral Association Ltd. in 1861, Duryea Mining Company in 1862, and was managing director of the Daly and Stanley Mining Company in 1868. He secured an Auctioneers licence in 1864.

In 1869 he was appointed Justice of the Peace. He was elected to the S.A. Parliament as Member for Flinders, serving from April 1870 to December 1871, his colleague being Alfred Watts.

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Answer 3

Peter Grant Hay

Peter Grant Hay (9 July 1879 – 29 August 1961) was an Australian brewer, landowner, pastoralist and thoroughbred racehorse breeder. He founded the Richmond N.S. Brewing Co. Ltd (Carlton & United Breweries) in Melbourne Australia.

He is responsible for both the introduction of pasteurisation to Australia's dairy industry and the introduction of the Swiss Nathan System of brewing to Australia. He was the youngest of five children.

Grant Hay was born in Bright, Victoria, the son of James Grant Hay, partner of Melbourne shipping firm, Coulson Hay & Co. and Catherine Margaret (née Cox), daughter of Irish distillery founder, Charles Cox. The Grant Hay's owned hop farm estates in Bright, Victoria and the Derwent Valley in Tasmania and were the main supplier of hops to Carlton & United Breweries in Victoria.

Upon the death of his father in 1914, Grant Hay traveled to America by steamship to San Francisco on board the USS American, meeting Tooheys Brewery manager Arnold Resch. The two agreed to inspect the major American breweries of Milwaukee, including the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company, Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, and the Miller Brewing Company and Anheuser-Busch brewing company in St Louis. Grant Hay then sailed to London to inspect the Courage Brewery plant and its hotels.

He then flew to Zurich and met with Dr Leopold Nathan, a Swiss chemist, who had invented a new brewing system. Grant Hay drove to Munich and attended Oktoberfest in the company of the Reinheitsgebot before the outbreak of war and returned to Australia.

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Answer 4

John Haimes

John Haimes (c. 1826 – 26 May 1890) was pioneer mail coach operator, hotelier and brewer in South Australia, and pastoralist and racehorse breeder and owner in Victoria, Australia, where he was universally known as "Captain Haimes".

Haimes was born in Australia, perhaps in Sydney, a son of Richard Haimes ( – 31 March 1833), from 1832 licensee of the Waterloo Tavern, George Town, Tasmania. His father was killed at Sandy Bay when kicked by a horse, and his mother Margaret Haimes took over running the hotel. She married again, on 15 January 1835, to George Thomas Wilson; they ran the hotel until 1842.

Haines moved to South Australia, and by 1847 had the licence for the hotel at Marrabool Creek (possibly present-day Moorabool), near Geelong. In 1851 he took the licence for the Sir John Franklin hotel at North Kapunda.

He was involved in the mail contract business, operating out of Currie Street: as Simms & Haimes (dissolved January 1856), then Haimes & Co runnning a weekly service to Moorundee. This was the time of the gold rush, and much traffic was carried on the River Murray from such river towns to the diggings of Victoria. He established a depot at Gawler 1857, then sold the business in September and January 1858. He had a separate carrying company Haimes & Jewell with Peter Jewell, which operated from January 1856 to May 1857. When Jewell faced insolvency Haimes purchased his farm Lots 101, 111 and part of 112, Netley, which in 1858 became his place of residence, left 1860, sold 1872. He also owned Lot 238 Unley (did this become Waverley Brewery?).

He bred horses at Tullowie in the 1850s in a partnership with Peter Jewell which ended in acrimony and a lawsuit. He was judge at the Kapunda races; starter at Gawler races in 1859 and several meetings at the Thebarton course in 1860.

He was appointed Captain in the South Australian Volunteer Military Force in March 1860, the source of his assumed title "Captain", which he affected in Victoria (but not South Australia).

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Answer 5

Andrew Galbraith Johnston

Lion Brewing and Malting Company of Jerningham Street, Lower North Adelaide was one of the many breweries which proliferated in Australia in the nineteenth-century. In those days beer was much cheaper than now; the wholesale price was 1/ a gallon, but transport was expensive, and small breweries were to be found all over the country. Most of these have now disappeared, having either closed down or become merged in larger businesses. Lion Brewing and Malting eventually confined itself to malting barley and manufacture of aerated waters and cordials.

The company was floated in 1888 in order to secure the brewing, hotel and property assets of Beaglehole and Johnston, issuing 75,000 shares of £1 each. The company owned many hotels in South Australia including the Cross Keys Hotel at Dry Creek (and subdivided around 20 acres adjacent in 1912), the Flagstaff Hotel, Darlington, the Oriental Hotel in Osmond Terrace, Norwood and the Bath Hotel at 91 King William Street in the city. Later in the 20th century it became a shareholder in another major hotel owner, Knapman and Sons, and bought out that company in 1973.

Andrew Galbraith Johnston (1827 – 18 December 1886), James Johnston (1818 – 12 April 1891) and three other brothers, all of Campbeltown, Scotland, arrived in South Australia on the Buckinghamshire early in 1839 with their father, who soon built one of South Australia's first malthouses and founded the town of Oakbank. He served a ten-year apprenticeship as a draper, then opened a shop in Reedy Creek which he left for the goldfields. He was quite successful and with his brother James, after a brief stint as a miller in Bridgewater, joined his father's brewing business and together built it into a highly profitable business.

Robert Cock, a "first settler" who accompanied Governor Hindmarsh on HMS Buffalo, and for whom Cox's Creek was named, has been reported as founder of the malting business. and had a substantial farm in the area.

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David Kingston

David R Kingston (born in London, England) is a Sydney merchant banker. He is chairman of Brisbane tourism group Club Crocodile, owns the Palace Group of hotels, including The Roxy Hotel, The Elk Hotel and Beachcomber Hotel.

Kingston was formerly a Non-Executive Managing Director of N M Rothschild & Sons Australia. He is a director of Southern Cross Broadcasting, and a former independent director of Coopers Brewery.

According to the Crikey website in 2006, Kingston was estimated by colleagues to be worth about $150 million.

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Answer 7

William Knapman

William Knapman (4 December 1830 – 24 June 1908) was a hotel owner, brewer and businessman in the young colony of South Australia. He founded the hotel owning firm of Knapman and Son which survived past the mid-20th Century. His descendants included four of South Australia's most famous sportsmen, a well-known pianist and numerous publicans.

William Knapman was born in Devonshire, England, served an apprenticeship as a carpenter, and on 9 October 1853 married, at St. Andrew's Church, Plymouth, Charlotte Bowden, daughter of a farmer of Christow, near Exeter. They emigrated to South Australia on the Taymouth Castle, arriving in 1854. He worked as a carpenter until 1859, when he was the builder and first licensee of the Lord Exmouth Hotel on LeFevre Peninsula, now the suburb of Exeter. In 1860 he leased George Coppin's "White Horse Cellars" hotel and theatre at the corner of Commercial Road and St. Vincent Street, Port Adelaide. After seven years he was in a position to purchase the property, and converted the theatre to a brewery (in 1883 he moved the brewery to Cannon Street, dubbed it the "Cannon Brewery", and converted the property into a block of shops).

In 1873 he built the Port Pirie Hotel in Port Pirie, managed by his son-in-law Samuel Wills. In 1876 Knapman and his family moved to Port Pirie, where his wife managed the Port Pirie Hotel. In 1880 Maria Knapman, presumably William's sister, took over the Pilot Boat Hotel, Port Pirie. In 1895, having remarried after the death of Charlotte, he and his family moved to his residence "Canonteign" (perhaps named for Viscount Exmouth's mansion in Exeter, England) at the corner of Cannon Street and The Minories, Port Adelaide, where he died in 1908, survived by his widow, four children (Alf and Samuel Knapman, "Polly" Wills and "Lottie" Ritchie), 22 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

Around 1912 Knapman and Son contracted with South Australian Brewing Company to supply beer to its hotels, and the Cannon Brewery was closed down and became the Commercial Chemical Company.

William Knapman (4 December 1830 – 24 June 1908) married Charlotte Bowden (c. 1835 – 30 May 1892). He married again, in 1895 to Mary (c. 1851 – 29 October 1939), the widow of Thomas Barret Brown; their residence was "Canonteign", corner of Cannon Street and The Minories, Port Adelaide. Their children included:

Maria Knapman (c. 1843 – 14 August 1899), sister of William Knapman sen. of Port Adelaide, married James Smith (c. 1847 – 21 April 1908) of Prospect Farm near Port Pirie around January 1885. His previous wife Mary died 6 December 1882 aged 39, leaving five children. His third wife, Monte Kate Smith and two small daughters survived him.

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Charles Mallen

Charles Edward Mallen (23 December 1819 – 26 October 1909) was a carpenter and brewer in the early days of the colony of South Australia.

Mallen was born at Euston Square, London, and was apprenticed to the Edwards company, cabinetmakers to the Royal Family, where his father and brother were employed all their lives. He and his family emigrated to South Australia aboard the steamer Champion in December 1854, and for a time was employed at his trade, producing ornamental work for the Wesleyan Church, Pirie street, and Faulding's chemist shop. He purchased some land in Angas Street and five acres at Clapham, where he built a home.

He then worked for Mellor Brothers, agricultural machinists, and while with them was given a job to repair a malt crusher at W. H. Clark's brewery on Halifax Street. Clark then moved to the West End Brewery, Hindley Street, which ultimately became the property of John Haimes, and Mallen was kept busy making plant and connecting machinery for the new brewery. Then W. K. Simms purchased the business, and put Mallen on the permanent staff. Next Edgar Chapman joined the business as Simms & Chapman, and Mallen was appointed brewer and manager. In 1874 they sent him to New South Wales to select a location for a new brewery. He settled on the town of Waverley, near Sydney, and there built the "Adelaide Brewery", where he brewed the first beer in December 1874, and was very successful, and in 1875 enlarged the cellars. Mallen left the company after being refused a partnership in the firm, and returned to Adelaide, where he purchased land on West Terrace, and built a small brewery on the Gilbert Street corner, which he (cheekily?) named Waverley Brewery, which started operation in December 1875, and was purchased by Simms in 1876, to become Waverley Vinegar Works. He then purchased a property on Unley Road, Lower Mitcham, near the Brownhill Creek, and in 1878 in conjunction with Haimes built the Waverley Brewery, operated by Haimes, Mallen & Co., which consisted of John Haimes, Mallen, his daughter Maria M. Mallen, and Arthur Bean, who retired in 1879.

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Answer 9

Martin McKenna (politician)

Martin McKenna (November 11, 1832 – May 7, 1907) was an Irish-born brewer and politician in Victoria, Australia.

Born in Carrahill, Kilkenny, Ireland, to Patrick, a farmer, and Anastasia, née Feehan, McKenna first worked as a miller for a Quaker family (though he himself was a Catholic). He migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1854, where he first tried his hand at gold mining in Ballarat, Ararat, Blackwood, and Forest Creek. By 1858, he gave up on mining after a bout of typhoid fever, and went into business with his brother in Malmesbury. In 1859, McKenna set up the Campaspe Brewery on Ebden Street in Kyneton, in partnership with his friend William Jowett, with whom McKenna remained partnered for twenty-two years.

He was a Justice of the Peace in Australia. In 1864, he was elected mayor of the borough of Kyneton, then from 1865 he was its first president as it became a shire. He married Catherine Wheeler in 1865, with whom he would have six sons and five daughters. In March 1868, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Kyneton Boroughs in March 1868 until his retirement in March 1874.

In 1881, McKenna assumed sole ownership of the brewery, moving it to Beauchamp Street. In 1887 McKenna joined with competitor Robert Cock to form the Kyneton Brewing & Malting Co. Ltd. He also became a substantial landowner, and remained a councillor of the shire of Kyenton until his death.

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Answer 10

Patrick Perkins

Patrick Perkins

Hon. Patrick Perkins, J. P., (10 October 1838 — 17 May 1901), nicknamed Paddy Perkins, was a brewer and politician in colonial Queensland. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and, later, a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.

Patrick Perkins was born in a humble cottage on a small farm in the village of Clonoulty near Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland. He was the second son of Thomas Perkins, a farmer, and his wife Ellen (née Gooley). He attended the local National School.

Thomas and Ellen Perkins and their eight children (including Patrick) immigrated on the Persian, departing Southampton and arrived in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 9 April 1854.

In 1861, he married Mary Ellen Hickey in Victoria. They had three children born in Victoria: Thomas Hector (born 1864), Edgar Colin Francis (born 1868) and Lilly Eleanor Perkins (born 1875). They had two children born in Queensland: Patrick Harold (born 1878) and Helene Cicilia (born 1880).

Patrick Perkins was a miner and storekeeper on the diggings in Victoria in districts including Ballarat, Bendigo, Woods Point and Jamieson.

With his brother Thomas, he started breweries in Victoria and Queensland. In 1866, Patrick Perkins started the Perkins Brewery in Toowoomba. In 1872, he later extended his operations to Brisbane with the purchase of the City Brewery in 1872.

In 1876, Patrick Perkins moved to Queensland in order to manage the Brisbane and Toowoomba breweries.

Perkins also had interests in property and mining, including the Mount Morgan Mine and coal mining in the West Moreton area.

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