James (Jim) Sinclair Millner AM (1919-2007) was an Australian corporate executive. He was head of many large Australian organisations including President of the NRMA, chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson, New Hope Coal, Brickworks Limited, Choiseul Investments, Queensland Mines Limitied and NBN Television. [1]
Millner was born in Sydney, NSW on 29 Nov 1919. His father Thomas Millner was a Colonel in the Australian Army and his mother Mary was the daughter of businessman Lewy Pattinson. Millner grew up in in Cheltenham, NSW, before attended Newington College and studying pharmacy at The University of Sydney. At the breakout of WWII Millner enlisted in the Army Service Corps Officer Training School and was posting to Malaya. When Singapore fell, he became a prisoner of war in Changi Prison Singapore, then later Sandakan, Borneo. He was released at the cessation of hostilities in 1945, shipping out to Morotai and then Balikpapan. Jim Millner married Jean Purdie in 1948. [2]
Millner supported financially the Australian War Memorial, Royal Botanical Gardens and served on the board of Newington College.