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VFFF-Anniversary-Book-2010.Pdf 100 years Sir vincent fairfax commemorative book 2009 vincent fairfax family foundation Sir vincent fairfax commemorative book 2009 vincent fairfax family foundation Introduction It is my pleasure to provide an introduction to the book that has been prepared to celebrate the 100th birthday of the founder of the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, the late Sir Vincent Fairfax. This commemorative book provides some He has maintained Sir Vincent’s legacy through the sir vinCent fairfax The life blood of a democracy is provided background to Sir Vincent’s life, his family projects the VFFF has funded and through the way and the work of the Foundation he created. the VFFF has operated. He has built on the work of the first 30 years and set the highest standards for Three people have shaped the Vincent Fairfax by voluntary institutions and individuals the organisation. During his term as Chief Executive Family Foundation (VFFF) since it was established Officer, the Foundation has blossomed into a major in 1962. Other family and non-family members have Australian family foundation owing partly to its size played important supporting roles but to these three acting on their own initiative, without but equally to the quality of its work. Geoffrey’s skills individuals we owe the legacy of the Foundation in philanthropy are widely recognised; his dedication today some 100 years after the birth of Sir Vincent. consideration of financial gain, and for to the VFFF is legendary and I am sure that his Sir Vincent ensured the objectives of the Foundation “stamp” on the organisation would have our founder ‘rawbelle’, early 1980’s. were clear in the formal legal documents. He also join the directors in saying “well done.” the good of the community to which wrote to the family as a father about them. For almost The directors of the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, 30 years as the Chairman of the VFFF, he showed by its members and all the family recognise, and are example the type of work he wanted to support and they belong. extremely grateful to, these three people for all they the values which he thought the organisation should have done for the Foundation. We know the hundreds hold precious. His own life was absolutely consistent of organisations who have been supported by the with his expectations for the VFFF. VFFF and the thousands they in turn assist join us in Lady Fairfax was deeply involved in those years, saying a quiet, but deeply felt, “thank you” to them. openinG of volunteer weeK, martin plaCe, sydney, 19 marCh 1982. but it was in the decade of the nineties, through Geoffrey Kells her chairmanship of the VFFF, that she ensured a Chairman seamless transition by steadfastly maintaining the course set by her husband. Her generous legacy, author’S note in 2007, for the Foundation, has very substantially The preparation of this book has benefited from the increased the size of its assets. input of family members and other valued contributors. I am particularly grateful to board member, Joy Yeo In the early 1990’s Sir Vincent asked Geoffrey White and educator Michael Collins Persse for their advice to accept the role of the executive leading the on grammar; to Sally White, board member and Foundation, a role which he continues today almost daughter of Vincent Fairfax for the selection of 20 years later. Geoffrey epitomizes, in every sense, photographs; and Fiona Higgins, Emily Fuller and the values and the priorities of the founder. Sue Goudie for their help with the preparation and co-ordination. Geoffrey white Chief exeCutive offiCer 1 HISTORY OF EVENTS 1941 1946 1969 1971 Royal Australian Artillery, Appointed Director of President of the Royal Received knighthood, war service 10 June 1941 John Fairfax & Sons Pty Ltd. Agricultural Society (RAS). September 1971, to 29 November 1945. Buckingham Palace. Appointed as Chief Scout Commissioner of Australia. 1909 1930 1962 1987 2009 Vincent Fairfax born Oxford University, Established the family Family Gathering, The VCF Grandchildren’s Fund 26 December 1909 to Brasenose College, Charitable Trust which was Christmas 1987, four was established. parents, Hubert and Ruth at ‘Head of the River’. renamed Vincent Fairfax children and twelve the family property ‘Marinya’, Family Foundation in 1988. grandchildren. Cambooya, Queensland. 1966 1970 Today Appointed Chairman The Queen opening Royal Easter The Vincent Fairfax Family of the Australian Show, April 1970, with Vincent Foundation remains one Mutual Provident Fairfax, President RAS. of Australia’s larger family (AMP) Society. foundations which over the Father of the Year. years has distributed nearly $90 million for public 1939 1993 charitable purposes. Wedding of Vincent Fairfax April 12, 1993 Sir and Nancy Heald, St George’s Vincent Fairfax died, Church, Hanover Square, aged 83. London, 15 February 1939. 2 3 A special celebration 2009 Centenary Year of Sir Vincent Fairfax’s birth the early yearS a dedication to the land and environment This year marks a special year for the Fairfax family These early years on a Queensland property made and the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation. In an indelible impression on the young Vincent Fairfax December, we are commemorating the Centenary of which never left him throughout his life. In addition Vincent Fairfax’s birth. The only child of Hubert and to his own properties in Queensland and New South Ruth Fairfax was born on 26 December 1909 near Wales, he was a key figure in the establishment the township of Cambooya on Queensland’s Darling of Australian Mutual Provident Society’s (AMP) Downs and died on April 12 1993, aged 83. Born Stanbroke Pastoral Company which at its height was in the homestead at the family property ‘Marinya,’ Australia’s largest beef-cattle producer with a range he liked to tell his children in later years that he of landholdings in Queensland and Northern Territory. was born on the kitchen table. He was also a long-term supporter of the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW, serving as President ‘Marinya’ was a pastoral property of 1,400 acres from 1969-1979. (566 hectares) operating a Corriedale sheep stud and an Ayrshire cattle stud. The Toowoomba Vincent Fairfax recognised the importance of Chronicle circa 1919 described ‘Marinya’ as “a model Australia balancing the demands between city and Downs establishment.” It was successful at a number country and understood that the ‘man on the land’ of agricultural shows with its Ayrshire cattle and is more exposed to economic vicissitudes than was one of the few studs with Corriedale sheep most sectors of the community as well as climate her majesty Queen elizabeth, duKe of edinburGh, prinCe Charles and prinCess anne in Queensland. esCorted by vinCent fairfax, royal easter show, sydney april 1970. variations. He was also conscious in later years that in many rural communities status and morale had Hubert Fairfax was at various times, President of the been damaged and that the farmer in some ways Ayrshire Association of Queensland; President of the had become the poor relation politically. Australian Corriedale Association; and President of the NSW Sheep Breeders Association. At the same time he understood the importance of the environment. At the opening of the 1970 Royal Easter A poem written by a member of the family in 1920 Show in Sydney, where the guest of honour was the included the following line: “But the black soil of the Queen, he said “agricultural societies have special Cambooya plain clings to our hearts and calls to responsibilities to create an awareness of the critical us again.” balance of plant and animal life in a world dominated top: ‘marinya’ homestead and by man in whose hands have been placed so many hubert’s ayrshire Cattle, CirCa 1910. powers. If more men grew and cared for plants or above: hubert and ruth fairfax on steps at ‘marinya’. husbanded animals there would be less risk of ignoring riGht: vinCent with his the natural laws on which we ultimately depend.” Grandfather, CirCa 1916. 4 5 A special celebration photo: loui seselja buSiness and community contributionS He was made a Companion of The Order of the Sydney morning herald He would have gained immense satisfaction had he St Michael and St George in January 1960 and been able to know that, early in 2007, Rural Press Vincent Fairfax was a leading member of the Throughout his life, Vincent Fairfax maintained a was knighted in 1971 in recognition of service merged with Fairfax Media, giving Marinya a 14% business community, holding numerous directorships cherished belief in the importance of his family’s to youth, finance and the press. Following in the interest in that company with John and his son, and official positions with some of Australia’s major association with The Sydney Morning Herald, which footsteps of his father and grandfather before him, Nick Fairfax, occupying two seats on the Board. financial firms and organisations, with interests in extended back to 1841. The Herald, which celebrated Vincent Fairfax also supported The Boys’ Brigade rural Australia and the Anglican Church. He was a its sesquicentenary in April 1981, was privately owned When the National Portrait Gallery exhibited portraits (known now as the Girls & Boys Brigade). Chairman of the AMP Society for 16 years, a Director by the Fairfax family until becoming a public company of prominent Fairfax family members in 2003, the of the Bank of New South Wales and a Director in 1956. notation on the portrait of Vincent Fairfax stated that of John Fairfax Limited, publishers of The Sydney he was one of the directors of The Sydney Morning Vincent Fairfax’s great-grandfather, John Fairfax, was Morning Herald, The Age and other newspapers.
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