Albert Toll | |
Birth Name: | Albert Frederick Toll |
Birth Date: | 1865 |
Death Date: | 1960 |
Occupation: | Transport and logistics provider, Politician |
Children: | Dora Birtles |
Albert Frederick Toll (1865–1960) was the founder of Australia and New Zealand's largest transport company, Toll Group and Toll NZ and a former mayor of Wickham, New South Wales.[1] [2]
He founded Toll in 1888, when he hauled coal with a horse and a cart.[3]
He was the father of Australian novelist Dora Birtles and founding president of Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, Victor Toll. A street in the Lake Macquarie suburb Valentine, Albert Street, was named after him.[4]