THE ALL-TIME RICHEST AUSTRALIANS

Current Richest Australians 

6. Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931)

International media magnate; originally from Melbourne

Wealth: $9.12 billion in 2003, 1.271% of GDP

Unquestionably the most famous and powerful entrepreneur, in international terms, ever produced by Australia, Rupert Murdoch is a household name around the world, probably the first Australian in history apart from sporting  heroes to be well-known to the person in the street in London, New York and Los Angeles.

The scale of Murdoch’s worldwide media and financial dealings means that he is, in comparative terms, the sixth richest Australian in history, nearly $4 billion wealthier than his nearest living rival, Kerry Packer (no. 17). (While today’s BRW Rich Lists no longer count Rupert Murdoch as an Australian, we continue to do so, given his Australian roots and previous residence.) The international media is in Rupert Murdoch’s blood. His father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a self-made journalist whose fearless (and probably exaggerated) reports of the horrors experienced by Australian troops at Gallipoli had a major impact on the conduct of the First World War and led to Lord Northcliffe, Britain’s greatest press baron, regarding him as his protégé. Keith Murdoch became editor of the Melbourne Herald, which he transformed into Australia’s best-selling newspaper, thus beginning the national Murdoch press and media empire. Rupert Murdoch’s mother, Elisabeth Greene (now Dame Elisabeth Murdoch), came from a New Zealand society family. Rupert Murdoch grew up in Toorak and attended Geelong Grammar School, where he was a loner who was sometimes known as ‘Commo Murdoch’. (Amazing as it may now seem, Rupert Murdoch was secretary of the Labour Club at Oxford University and kept a bust of Lenin in his room!) Since his father’s death in 1951, Murdoch has gradually built up a worldwide media empire of incredible dimensions, founding The Australian, the first national newspaper, in 1964. From the late 1960s he bought a string of newspapers in Britain and the United States, ranging from the London Times to the sleazeball British tabloid The Sun. By then a coni rmed right winger, Murdoch mixed with Thatcher and Reagan and in the mid-1980s broke forever the egregious power of the Fleet Street print unions. After that came television stations, cable networks, professional sports clubs like the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, publishers and film companies in an incredible international empire, News Corporation, resembling a modern version of Charles Norton Kane’s media cartel depicted in Citizen Kane. Now in his early 70s, Murdoch has had his share of troubles—marital, familial and financial—in recent years, but continues to be probably the world’s most powerful media mogul.

17. Kerry Francis Bullimore Packer (b. 1938)

Media magnate and investor, lives in Sydney

Wealth: $6.5 billion, 0.918% of GDP

Just as Rupert Murdoch is today’s richest Australian resident overseas, so Kerry Packer is today’s richest Australian living in his own country. There are many parallels between the two great media moguls. Packer was also born into a well- established media family, the son of Sir Frank Packer (1906–74) who, with the wealthy Queensland Labor politician E.G. ‘Red Ted’ Theodore, bought the World, a Sydney evening paper. Frank Packer then went into the magazine field, establishing the Australian Woman’s Weekly with Theodore in 1933. By 1960 this magazine had, on a per capita basis, the highest circulation of any general magazine in the world.  In 1936 the senior Packer’s media empire was renamed Australian Consolidated Press, while in 1955 he became a pioneer of Australian television by founding Channel Nine. Educated at private schools and suffering from polio as a child, Kerry Packer grew up with this media legacy. He took control of his father’s television stations in the 1960s. Although television has been a growing part of his media empire, it has remained centred, until recently, in his magazines. Packer owns such mass-circulation titles as Woman’s Day, Cosmopolitan, Cleo and The Bulletin. To these, over the years, he has added numerous other profi table ventures from sizeable rural properties and ski resorts to the Monsanto Chemical Company. In the 1990s, while continuing as Australia’s richest resident, Packer suffered some reverses, among them the collapse of One.Tel and competitive pressures brought against Packer’s flagship Nine Network. One of Australia’s best-known gamblers, Packer bought control of Crown Casino in 1998. Packer’s fortune has actually declined in recent years, down from an estimated $8.2 billion in 2000 at the height of the ‘dot.com bubble’ to $6.5 billion in 2004. Nevertheless, no-one can argue that during the last 20 years fortune has not smiled upon Kerry Francis Bullimore Packer: in the first Business Review Weekly Rich List, in 1983, Packer was estimated to be worth only $100 million, less than two per cent of his wealth today! Like his father (who financed two unsuccessful America’s Cup bids), Kerry Packer is a great sportsman, well-known for his involvement in horseracing and polo, and who will always be remembered for transforming international cricket in the late 1970s with the introduction of one-day matches. Packer is a huge man (193 cm) and his health has recently been poor. Unlike Rupert Murdoch he has never sought political influence, and has never possessed the international political clout (or notoriety) of Australia’s other great media magnate.

35. Richard Pratt (b. 1934)

Paper and packaging manufacturing, and investments; lives in Melbourne

Wealth: $4.2 billion, 0.593% of GDP

Richard Pratt, Australia’s ‘Cardboard Box King’, has led a rather unusual life. He was born in Poland in 1935, the son of a Jewish retailer with some international links who was in London in 1938 when, sensing what the imminent outbreak of war would mean for Europe’s Jews, he brought his wife and three-year-old Richard to Australia. Pratt’s father, Leon, soon moved to Shepparton (where a small Jewish agricultural community existed) to establish an orchard and then, in 1948, to Melbourne. There Leon Pratt established a factory making corrugated cardboard boxes. Richard was educated at the University of Melbourne but then became an actor in London and New York, starring in The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, and was screen-tested for Hollywood. A big man, Pratt also had a career in Australian Rules Football. In 1969 he took over the family business, VisyBoard, developing it into the largest manufacturer of containers in Australia. Pratt’s business methods are based on the ‘Straight Wicket’ approach:sound finance, sensible growth, capable managers and good relations with employees. As a result, Pratt’s wealth has escalated enormously. In 1983, Business Review Weekly reported him as worth ‘a minimum of $70 million’. By 1992 this had grown to an estimated $550 million and in 2004 to no less than $4.2 billion. By then Pratt was the third-richest person in Australia—in 1983 he had been listed in eleventh place. Pratt has become well-known for a range of reasons: his ownership of the great mansion Raheen in Melbourne, his patronage of the arts and charities and that of his wife Jeanne, and the high profile scandal which surfaced in the late 1990s involving an illegitimate daughter in Sydney. Pratt with Visy Industries (as it is now known) has expanded into finance and has become an international force in the paper and packaging world, now being the seventh-largest operator in the United States, with sales there exceeding $1 billion. Visy Industries is an excellent example of how a participant in a humble-sounding niche market can provide the basis for a super-rich fortune.

36. Frank Lowy (b. 1930)

Retailing (especially shopping centres), investment and property development; lives in Sydney

Wealth: $4.2 billion, 0.593% of GDP

Frank Lowy is regarded as the ‘Shopping Centre King’ of Australia, the head of giant Westfield Holdings. Along with a significant number of today’s wealthiest Australians, Lowy is a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Born in Czechoslovakia where the family ran a grocery store, Lowy survived the war in Hungary, then moved to Palestine after the war and served in the newly founded Israeli army. Unable to make a success of it in Israel, in 1952 Lowy migrated to Sydney, the proverbial penniless post-war immigrant. He worked as a truck driver until he met another recent Hungarian immigrant, John Saunders (1923–99), who ran a small delicatessen in Blacktown. Almost by chance, they went into partnership and developed a small shopping centre at Blacktown in 1959, using the company name of Westfield. By the mid-1980s the partners had become a major force in Australian retailing, taking a stake in Coles Myer and in Grace Brothers, and then diversified into television, finance and property development. As well, they have built large shopping centres in the United States and Britain. A clever growth strategy, competently handled, has provided the basis for one of the greatest spurts of growth of any wealth holder in contemporary Australia. Lowy was listed as worth only $25 million on Business Review Weekly’s 1983 Rich List. By 1988 he was estimated to be worth $330 million. Lowy joined the tiny ranks of Australian billionaires in the mid-1990s, and by 2002 was the second richest man in the country, worth an estimated $4.2 billion. The decline in the stock market in the early 2000s was responsible for a slight (in comparative terms!) decline in his wealth, in 2003, to $3.7 billion.

92. The Smorgon Family

Meat wholesalers and exporters; later glass and steel manufacturers; live in Melbourne

Family Wealth: $2.37 billion, 0.334% of GDP

One of the best-known of today’s richest Australian families, the current Smorgons are descendants of a Jewish butcher from the Ukraine, Gershon Smorgon, who arrived in Australia in 1926 with his wife and three sons in a cattle boat. Settling in Carlton, they brought over a number of other relatives and began modestly enough, with a kosher butcher shop on Lygon Street serving Carlton’s then-thriving Jewish community. By the Second World War they had developed an expanding abattoir and meat-export business and a food canning works. Although linked together as a private company, Smorgon Consolidated Industries, the various members of the family have pursued different lines of business. After the war, the family entered the ranks of success in a big way, their breakthrough probably coming in 1948 when they persuaded American meat importers to buy Australian rabbit meat, a market they soon cornered. In order to cover themselves during downturns in the meat trade the family also diversified, entering paper manufacturing, a field chosen because it had only a small number of existing fi rms and sales which were largely recession-proof. Some in the family also entered glass and steel  manufacturing — one Smorgon described the family as ‘natural manufacturers’—and by the end of the 20th century, steel manufacturing had become the most important item in the Smorgon family portfolio. By concentrating on these down to-earth fields, the family’s collective wealth has grown from an estimated $150 million in 1983 to $650 million in 1992 to more than $2.4 billion in 2003, when they were listed in the Business Review Weekly’s annual list as the wealthiest family (as opposed to individual entrepreneur) in the country.

119. Harry Triguboff (b. 1933)

Property development and house building; lives in Sydney

Wealth: $2.0 billion, 0.282% of GDP

Less famous than many other of today’s Australian super-rich, Harry Triguboff was born in China to Russian Jewish parents, arriving in Australia in 1947. He was educated at Scots College, Sydney, and then at Leeds University in England (in textile sciences), before living in Israel and South Africa. Originally a production manager for a textile company, Triguboff began investing in property development in the mid-1960s. Unlike most property developers in today’s Australia, Triguboff chiefly concerned himself with building home units, especially in inner Sydney, rather than shopping centres or office blocks. By 1989 Triguboff’s company, Meriton, had extended itself into suburban house building—it put up nearly 2600 homes in 2002, the largest number of any Australian developer — and has expanded into Queensland. Triguboff was involved in a high profi le tax dispute settlement with the Taxation Department in 2002 which was alleged to have cost him $200 million, the largest such settlement in Australian history. Unlike many other wealthy men, Triguboff has not diversified into other areas, sticking to what he does best.

142. David H. Hains (b. 1930) and family

Investment banking; lives in Melbourne

Family Wealth: $1.8 billion, 0.254% of GDP

David Hains belongs to one of the most private and least well-publicised of today’s enormously wealthy families. In the early 1950s he founded Portland House, a private, family-run investment company. Although his breakthrough came in the mining boom of the 1960s, in which Portland House played a leading role, Hains himself entered the public eye only at odd moments, most notably when he emerged as a key participant in the movement to make John Gorton the prime minister in the late 1960s. By 1983 Hains was estimated to be worth about $70 million, one of the ten richest men in the country. Since then Portland House has continued to prosper, with Hains (and his family) estimated to be worth $450 million in 1989 and more than $1.6 billion in 2003. In the past, Portland House has operated an aggressive and successful investment  strategy, for example, when it bought US$300 million worth of a bankrupt American steel manufacturer in 1987 and then turned it into a highly profitable concern. More recently its strategy has become more defensive, relying for its investment decisions on a vast array of financial reports from around the world to find shrewd or overlooked investment possibilities in a depressed market. Hains has also entered property development and has long been well-known for his successful sideline in horse-breeding and racing.

184. The Liberman Family

Textile manufacturing and then diversified investments; live in Melbourne

Family Wealth: $1.41 billion, 0.199% of GDP

Another of the phenomenally successful eastern European Jewish families who arrived penniless after the Second World War, the Liberman brothers and their families came to Australia in 1949. The sons of a baker, both had been arrested in 1939 when the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland as its share of the booty of the Nazi–Soviet Pact: One brother, Chaim (b. 1920), was sent to a prison camp in Siberia ‘for no reason’ while the other, Jack (1922–97), was also arrested but allowed to join the Soviet army. After 1945, technically still being Polish citizens, they were allowed to emigrate, and arrived in Melbourne from German Displaced Persons’ camps with the wives they had married in Europe. They began humbly, carting clothing rejects and cut-offs from factories for resale. Moving into hosiery manufacturing, by 1959, remarkably, their company (Kolotex) had become the largest hosiery manufacturers in Australia. From this they diversified into Melbourne CBD properties and car parks, grocery retailing (Payless) and other textile businesses (Checkheaton, Glomesh), as well as an extremely wide ranging array of other firms in their family business, JGL Investments. Over the years the Libermans have made some bad investments, but then have always come out on top. The family is now headed by the sons of the founders, who have recently moved into the information technology area.

188. John Gandel (b. 1935)

Originally involved in women’s clothing retail, then shopping centres and property; lives in Melbourne

Wealth: $1.4 billion, 0. 197% of GDP

John Gandel’s parents, Sam and Fanny, were Polish Jews who migrated to Australia just before the start of the Second World War. In Melbourne they founded Sussan, now a ubiquitous household name among women’s clothing retail chains. Sussan consisted of just two shops in the early 1950s when it was taken over by Sam Gandel’s son-in-law Mark Besen (b. 1924; today himself a famous entrepreneur worth an estimated $923 million in 2003 and a well-known art collector) together with Sam’s Young son John. Over the next few decades the two men built up Sussan into one of Australia’s largest retailing chains, which by the late 1980s had more than 200 shops around the country. While Besen continued chiefl y as the head of Sussan, buying out the Gandel family in 1985, John Gandel used the proceeds from the sale to become the originator and head of some of Australia’s largest shopping centres, chiefl y in Melbourne. In particular, Gandel is the owner of Chadstone, the vast, ever expanding complex in Melbourne’s southeast which is said to be the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere. Visited by 13 million people each year, the several hundred shops on its premises chalked up retail sales of $807 million in 2002. Although Chadstone has twice expanded its space signifi cantly in recent years, Gandel also has advanced plans to increase its fl oor space by another 40 per cent. Gandel is also heavily involved in financial ventures and in aged care provision, and is well-known for his philanthropy.


The All-Time Richest Australians

(Ranking)  (Name)  (Year of Death/Birth)   (Original Value)    (Current Value)  (% of GDP)

More than 1.000% of GDP

          

1. Samuel Terry (d. 1838) £200 000 24.37 billion 3.395

2. Rowland Hassall (d. 1820) £15 000 14.35 billion 1.991

3. Robert Jenkins (d. 1822) £20 000 13.54 billion 1.886

4. William John Turner Clarke (d. 1874) £1 640 931 10.74 billion 1.496

5. James Tyson (d. 1898) £2 338 442 9.42 billion 1.313

6. Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931) 9.12 billion 1.271

7. William Field (d. 1837) £69 400 8.86 billion 1.238

8. Matthew Bowden (d. 1814) £5000 8.23 billion 1.147

9. Edward Riley (d. 1825) £15 000 8.00 billion 1.115

10. Samuel Hordern (d. 1909) £3 004 062 7.70 billion 1.073

11. Thomas William Birch (d. 1821) £10 000 7.61 billion 1.060

12. John Macarthur (d. 1834) £40 000 7.54 billion 1.047

13. John Reddington (d. 1816) £5000 7.24 billion 1.009

14. Walter Lang (d. 1816) £5000 7.24 billion 1.009

15. William Hobart Mansel (d. 1816) £5000 7.24 billion 1.009

0.700–1.000% of GDP

16. John Benn (d. 1815) £5000 6.75 billion 0.941

17. Kerry Packer (b. 1938) 6.5 billion 0.918

18. George Johnston (d. 1823) £10 000 6.44 billion 0.898

19. Garnham Blaxcell (d. 1817) £4800 6.22 billion 0.866

20. Walter Russell Hall (d. 1911) £2 854 124 6.19 billion 0.863

21. Henry Miller (d. 1888) £1 620 497 6.02 billion 0.839

22. Thomas Budds Payne (d. 1897) £1 163 614 5.45 billion 0.759

23. William Hart (d. 1843) £45 000 5.44 billion 0.758

24. William Broughton (d. 1821) £7000 5.33 billion 0.742

25. Robert Murray (d. 1819) £5000 5.15 billion 0.717

26. William Roberts (d. 1819) £5000 5.15 billion 0.717

27. Isaac Nichols (d. 1819) £5000 5.15 billion 0.717

28. Joseph Tice Gellibrand (d. 1837) £40 000 5.12 billion 0.713

0.500–0.700% of GDP

29. Edward Payne (d. 1822) £7000 4.74 billion 0.660

30. Robert Townson (d. 1827) £10 000 4.66 billion 0.649

31. Thomas Burdekin (d. 1844) £40 000 4.62 billion 0.644

32. Sir William John Clarke, 1st Baronet (d. 1897) £951 126 4.45 billion 0.620

33. Dougall MacDougall (d. 1819) £4300 4.43 billion 0.617

34. Robert Barr Smith (d. 1915) £2 280 616 4.39 billion 0.612

35. Richard Pratt (b. 1934) 4.2 billion 0.593

36. Frank Lowy (b. 1930) 4.2 billion 0.593

37. David Berry (d. 1889) £1 255 937 4.24 billion 0.591

38. William Walker (d. 1854) £300 000 4.18 billion 0.582

39. Alexander Riley (d. 1833) £16 000 4.08 billion 0.568

40. James Doyle (d. 1836) £30 000 4.08 billion 0.568

41. Donald Larnach (d. 1896) £884 768 3.98 billion 0.554

42. Thomas Walker (d. 1886) £937 984 3.95 billion 0.551

43. George Salting (d. 1909) £1 531 717 3.93 billion 0.547

44. Sir Samuel Wilson (d. 1895) £762 667 3.89 billion 0.542

45. William Severin Salting (d. 1905) £1 202 301 3.85 billion 0.537

46. William Cox (d. 1837) £30 000 3.84 billion 0.535

47. Edward Sinarey (or Sindrey) (d. 1821) £5000 3.80 billion 0.530

48. Robert Howe (d. 1829) £10 000 3.79 billion 0.528

49. William Kerr (d. 1842) £33 000 3.78 billion 0.527

50. Thomas Monahan Wallace (d. 1893) £805 505 3.78 billion 0.526

51. John Thomas Neale (d. 1897) £804 945 3.78 billion 0.526

52. Rev. Samuel Marsden (d. 1838) £30 000 3.65 billion 0.509

53. Edward Terry (d. 1838) £30 000 3.65 billion 0.509

54. Caleb Wilson (d. 1838) £30 000 3.65 billion 0.509

55. John Moffatt (d. 1871) £396 923 3.63 billion 0.506

0.300–0.500% of GDP

56. John Boyd Watson (d. 1889) £1 053 423 3.55 billion 0.495

57. Sir Thomas Elder (d. 1897) £736 704 3.44 billion 0.480

58. John Terry (d. 1842) £30 000 3.44 billion 0.479

59. Charles Fletcher (d. 1822) £5000 3.39 billion 0.472

60. William Gibson (d. 1918) £2 226 623 3.25 billion 0.453

61. William Campbell (d. 1896) £720 673 3.24 billion 0.451

62. Thomas Monahan (d.1889) £959 413 3.23 billion 0.450

63. Henry Dangar (d. 1861) £280 000 3.11 billion 0.434

64. Robert Futter (d. 1839) £30 000 3.08 billion 0.429

65. John Dickson (d. 1843) £25 450 3.08 billion 0.429

66. William Redfern (d. 1833) £12 000 3.06 billion 0.426

67. William Effi ngham Lawrence (d. 1841) £30 000 3.06 billion 0.426

68. George Howe (d. 1821) £4000 3.04 billion 0.424

69. Severin Kanute Salting (d. 1865) £275 000 3.01 billion 0.420

70. George Scarfe (d. 1903) £800 000 2.94 billion 0.409

71. Benjamin Orman (d. 1824) £5000 2.89 billion 0.402

72. Robert Campbell, Junior (d. 1851) £55 000 2.88 billion 0.401

73. George Wills (d. 1906) £959 000 2.87 billion 0.400

74. Peter McIntyre (d. 1842) £25 000 2.86 billion 0.399

75. Daniel Robertson (d. 1842) £25 000 2.86 billion 0.399

76. George Blaxland (d. 1849) £40 000 2.84 billion 0.396

78. Robert Wardell (d. 1834) £15 000 2.82 billion 0.393

79. Peter Tyson (d. 1879) £500 000 2.78 billion 0.388

80. John Peter (d. 1878) £476 027 2.71 billion 0.378

81. Edwin Tooth (d. 1858) £159 000 2.66 billion 0.371

82. John Gilchrist (d. 1866) £260 000 2.63 billion 0.366

83. John Howard Angas (d. 1904) £800 000 2.58 billion 0.360

84. Robert Nash (d. 1819) £2500 2.58 billion 0.359

85. David Syme (d. 1908) £979 480 2.58 billion 0.359

86. Thomas Marsden (d. 1837) £20 000 2.56 billion 0.357

87. George Galbraith (d. 1837) £20 000 2.56 billion 0.357

88. Thomas Williams (d. 1841) £25 000 2.55 billion 0.355

89. Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet (d. 1902) £707 954 2.55 billion 0.355

90. Edward Aspinall (d. 1840) £30 000 2.50 billion 0.349

91. Richard John Moffatt Broughton (d. 1891) £698 918 2.48 billion 0.345

92. The Smorgon family 2.37 billion 0.334

93. Sir Samuel McCaughey (d. 1919) £1 752 532 2.38 billion 0.332

94. Robert ‘Tertius’ Campbell (d. 1887) £617 743 2.36 billion 0.329

95. Charles Hotson Ebden (d. 1867) £235 000 2.35 billion 0.327

96. Peter Manifold (d. 1885) £560 399 2.33 billion 0.324

97. Charles Smith (d. 1897) £494 468 2.32 billion 0.323

98. Mary Cooper (d. 1842) £20 000 2.30 billion 0.320 —the highest woman’s estate in real terms

99. Richard Dry (d. 1843) £19 000 2.30 billion 0.320

100. Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet (d. 1915) £1 183 026 2.28 billion 0.318

101. Nathaniel Ayres (d. 1818) £2000 2.26 billion 0.315

102. John Wilson (d. 1888) £608 055 2.26 billion 0.315

103. George Bunn (d. 1834) £12 000 2.25 billion 0.314

104. Robert Landale (d. 1903) £615 677 2.25 billion 0.314

105. John Manifold (d. 1877) £379 084 2.25 billion 0.313

106. John Lang Currie (d. 1898) £546 115 2.20 billion 0.307

107. Janet Marion, Lady Clarke (d. 1909) £846 036 2.17 billion 0.302

108. Walter Jacob Levi (d. 1828) £5000 2.10 billion 0.292

109. John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (d. 1828) £5000 2.10 billion 0.292

110. William Gibson Whitfi eld (d. 1828) £5000 2.10 billion 0.292

111. Thomas Brown (d. 1890) £600 012 2.09 billion 0.291

112. Thomas Sterrop Amos (d. 1819) £2000 2.06 billion 0.287

113. Thomas Howard (d. 1819) £2000 2.06 billion 0.287

114. William Townsend Jones (d. 1819) £2000 2.06 billion 0.287

115. Denis McCarty (or McCarthy) (d. 1820) £2000 2.06 billion 0.287

116. William Parker (d. 1826) £4000 2.03 billion 0.283

117. James Meehan (d. 1826) £4000 2.03 billion 0.283

118. Charles Carlton Skarratt (d. 1900) £533 022 2.02 billion 0.282

119. Harry Triguboff (b. 1933) 2.0 billion 0.282

120. Robert Rand (d. 1894) £412 971 2.0 billion 0.279

121. Henry Osborne (d. 1859) £170 000 2.0 billion 0.278

122. John Bell (d. 1876) £326 067 1.98 billion 0.276

123. George Lansell (d. 1906) £659 943 1.97 billion 0.275

124. Hugh Victor McKay (d. 1926) £2 123 945 1.95 billion 0.272

125. John Harris (d. 1838) £16 000 1.95 billion 0.272

126. James Chisholm (d. 1837) £15 000 1.95 billion 0.272

127. William Blyth (d. 1823) £3000 1.93 billion 0.269

128. John Jones (d. 1837) £16 000 1.92 billion 0.268

129. Archibald Bell (d. 1837) £15 000 1.92 billion 0.268

130. Edward Nicholas (d. 1837) £15 000 1.92 billion 0.268

131. John Donald McLean (d. 1866) £190 000 1.92 billion 0.267

132. Robert Brady Hazard (d. 1820) £2000 1.90 billion 0.265

133. Robert Cable (d. 1820) £2000 1.90 billion 0.265

134. Thomas Ferris (d. 1829) £5000 1.89 billion 0.264

135. Richard Charles Pritchett (d. 1834) £10 000 1.88 billion 0.262

136. Silas Harding (d. 1894) £386 487 1.87 billion 0.261

137. Andrew Frazier (or Frazer) (d. 1827) £4000 1.87 billion 0.260

138. Richard Grice (d. 1882) £382 664 1.86 billion 0.259

139. Edward Stirling (d. 1873) £280 000 1.85 billion 0.258

140. James Ross (d. 1838) £15 000 1.83 billion 0.255

141. William Robertson (d. 1874) £289 067 1.83 billion 0.255

142. David H. Hains and Family (b. 1930) 1.80 billion 0.254

143. John Frazer (d. 1884) £405 000 1.79 billion 0.250

144. Edward Wollstonecraft (d. 1832) £6000 1.79 billion 0.250

145. Sidney Baevski Myer (d. 1934) £1 532 171 1.78 billion 0.248

146. Richard Brooks (d. 1833) £7000 1.78 billioin 0.248

147. William Hutchinson (d. 1846) £20 000 1.77 billion 0.247

148. Robert Campbell the Elder (d. 1846) £20 000 1.77 billion 0.247

149. William Wilson (d. 1846) £20 000 1.77 billion 0.247

150. Edward Flood (d. 1888) £468 487 1.74 billion 0.243

151. James Sutherland Mitchell (d. 1893) £369 000 1.73 billion 0.241

152. Alexander William Robertson (d. 1896) £385 003 1.73 billion 0.241

153. James White (d. 1842) £15 000 1.72 billion 0.240

154. Sir John Langdon Bonython (d. 1939) £1 992 041 1.70 billion 0.237

155. John Hepburn (d. 1860) £170 000 1.68 billion 0.234

156. Charles Hadley (d. 1828) £4000 1.67 billion 0.233

157. Thomas Moore (d. 1840) £20 000 1.67 billion 0.233

158. John Simson (d. 1896) £372 541 1.67 billion 0.233

159. George Fife Angas (d. 1879) £292 150 1.65 billion 0.230

160. Hannah Maria Neale (d. 1911) £760 181 1.65 billion 0.230

161. Eliza Rawdon Hall (d. 1916) £941 960 1.63 billion 0.227

162. Thomas Austin (d. 1871) £177 386 1.62 billion 0.226

163. William Knox Simms (d. 1897) £345 000 1.61 billion 0.225

164. George James Molle (d. 1823) £2500 1.29 billion 0.224

165. Ebenezer Vickery (d. 1906) £536 971 1.61 billion 0.224

166. John Ovens (d. 1825) £3000 1.60 billion 0.223

167. Adam Swanston Robertson (d. 1873) £240 503 1.58 billion 0.220

168. George Charles Hawker (d. 1895) £305 800 1.56 billion 0.217

169. Andrew Chirnside (d. 1890) £443 696 1.54 billion 0.215

170. Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood (d. 1903) £421 846 1.54 billion 0.215

171. Thomas Rose (d. 1837) £12 000 1.54 billion 0.214

172. John Brown Broughton (d. 1882) £315 545 1.53 billion 0.213

173. Thomas Wylde (d. 1821) £2000 1.52 billion 0.212

174. William Moffi tt (d. 1874) £230 000 1.51 billion 0.210

175. John Brown (d. 1842) £18 000 1.50 billion 0.209

176. Dr Robert Graham (d. 1845) £15 000 1.50 billion 0.209

177. William Edward Sparke (d. 1905) £468 045 1.50 billion 0.209

178. Sir Daniel Cooper, 2nd Baronet (d. 1909) £574 433 1.47 billion 0.205

179. Alfred Felton (d. 1904) £452 572 1.46 billion 0.204

180. John Christian (d. 1863) £130 000 1.48 billion 0.206

181. George Washington Charters (d. 1900) £382 000 1.50 billion 0.202

182. James Blanch (d. 1841) £14 000 1.43 billion 0.199

183. James Campbell Telford (d. 1881) £283 000 1.43 billion 0.199

184. The Liberman family 1.41 billion 0.199

185. Thomas Reibey (d. 1842) £12 400 1.42 billion 0.198

186. Cornelius Driscoll (d. 1847) £17 000 1.42 billion 0.198

187. Lancelot Iredale (d. 1848) £20 000 1.42 billion 0.198

188. John Gandel (b. 1935) 1.40 billion 0.197

189. John Cox (d. 1877) £235 000 1.40 billion 0.195

190. John McPherson (d. 1875) £231 004 1.39 billion 0.194

191. Michael Dawson (d. 1875) £229 449 1.39 billion 0.193

192. John Harris (d. 1891) £391 636 1.39 billion 0.193

193. George Druitt (d. 1842) £12 000 1.38 billion 0.192

194. Thomas Smith (d. 1842) £12 000 1.38 billion 0.192

195. Thomas Smith (d. 1822) £2000 1.29 billion 0.189

196. James Squire (d. 1822) £2000 1.36 billion 0.189

197. Thomas Archer (d. 1850) £22 000 1.35 billion 0.188

198. Niel Black (d. 1880) £252 000 1.35 billion 0.188

199. George Russell (d. 1888) £361 856 1.34 billion 0.187

200. Nathaniel Lawrence (d. 1825) £2500 1.33 billion 0.186

202. Thomas Kite (d. 1876) £220 000 1.33 billion 0.186

203. Lachlan McBean (d. 1894) £276 029 1.33 billion 0.186

204. Sir George Wigram Allen (d. 1885) £300 000 1.33 billion 0.185

205. Martin Loughlin (d. 1894) £273 791 1.33 billion 0.185

206. Charles Campbell (d. 1905) £413 276 1.32 billion 0.184

207. Thomas Dalton (d. 1901) £346 580 1.31 billion 0.183

208. David McCaughey (d. 1899) £327 633 1.30 billion 0.181

209. Mars Buckley (d. 1905) £406 051 1.30 billion 0.181

210. Nicholas Bayly (d. 1823) £2000 1.29 billion 0.180

211. Daniel Watson Stalker (d. 1823) £2000 1.29 billion 0.180

212. James Whyte (d. 1823) £2000 1.29 billion 0.180

213. Edmund Harrison Cliffe (d. 1837) £10 000 1.28 billion 0.178

214. Robert Chirnside (d. 1900) £336 109 1.28 billion 0.178

215. Edward Bernard Green (d. 1861) £115 000 1.26 billion 0.178

216. William Charles Wentworth (d. 1872) £166 000 1.27 billion 0.177

217. Henry Dumaresq (d. 1838) £17 000 1.26 billion 0.176

218. Thomas Buckland (d. 1896) £280 586 1.26 billion 0.176

219. John Darling (d. 1914) £723 229 1.26 billion 0.175

220. John Reeve (d. 1875) £208 000 1.26 billion 0.175

221. John Rutherford (d. 1880) £233 847 1.26 billion 0.175

222. William Andrew Fane DeSalis (d. 1896) £245 382 1.26 billion 0.175

223. Thomas Steele (d. 1840) £15 000 1.25 billion 0.174

224. David Lord (d. 1847) £15 000 1.25 billion 0.174

225. Harry Bellingham Howard-Smith (d. 1933) £1 006 828 1.25 billion 0.174

226. Thomas Holt (d. 1888) £334 183 1.24 billion 0.173

227. Mary Ann Burdekin (d. 1889) £366 493 1.23 billion 0.172

228. Thomas Ware Smart (d. 1881) £243 000 1.23 billion 0.171

229. George Gatehouse (d. 1838) £10 000 1.22 billion 0.170

230. Alexander Mackenzie (d. 1838) £10 000 1.22 billion 0.170

231. Duncan McKellar (d. 1884) £274 784 1.22 billion 0.170

232. James White (d. 1890) £349 791 1.22 billion 0.170

233. John Thorn (d. 1838) £10 000 1.22 billion 0.170

From the book ‘The All-time Australian 200 Rich List’ by William D. Rubistein, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, Australia, 2004 p.xv-xxii & 187-194, Digitized, adapted  and illustrated to be posted by Leopoldo Costa.