Charles Herbert Locke

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Charles Herbert Locke OBE (21 September 1910 - 15 May 1977) was an Australian company director, who served as chairman of Tooheys and Lend Lease Corporation, and a charity fundraiser. ^[1]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Army service 3 Business career 4 Honours 5 References

[edit] Early life

Locke was born at Turramurra, New South Wales, the fifth of seven children, and was ducated at Newington College (1920-1925) and at Wrekin College in Shropshire, England. He worked in insurance before a brief stint as a jackeroo and then with Prudential Assurance where he rose to be Sydney managing agent with power of attorney for the British Equitable Assurance. He married Lesley Alison Vine (died 1972) in 1936 and they had three sons and a daughter.

[edit] Army service

In 1938, Locke was commissioned in the Militia and transferred to the Australian Imperial Force in 1940. He was promoted to captain and served with the 9th Division in the Middle East. He was mentioned in dispatches after service in Tobruk and Libya. In 1945 he took command of Z Special Unit and became a lieutenant colonel.

[edit] Business career

Post World War II, Locke again worked in the insurance business and became a non-executive, independent director of numerous Australian companies. He served as chairman of Toohey's Ltd, Lend Lease Corporation Ltd, International Computers (Australia) Pty Ltd and Anthony Squires Pty Ltd. He was a board member of the Australia Hotel Co Ltd, Peko-Wallsend Ltd, Commercial & General Acceptance Ltd, Australian Equity Corporation Ltd, Permanent Trustee Co of New South Wales Ltd and the local board of Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd. He married Mary Clare Gregory, née Luya, a widow, in 1973 and died of a heart attack in San Francisco.

[edit] Honours

He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1968 in recognition of his services to Cranbrook School, Frensham, the National Heart Foundation, the Children's Medical Research Foundation and the Australian Outward Bound Memorial Foundation.

[edit] References