Alfred Roy Le Messurier Explained

Alfred Roy Le Messurier
Birth Date:19 February 1886
Birth Place:Semaphore, South Australia
Death Place:Fitzroy, South Australia
Years1:1907
Games Goals1:37
Years2:1908-1909; 1911-1913
Games Goals2:46 (4)
Sooyears1:1908
Sooteam1:South Australia
Soogames Goals1:3
Careerhighlights:
  • North Adelaide vice captain (1911, 1913)

Alfred Roy Le Messurier (19 February 1886 – 5 October 1946) was an Australian rules footballer and businessman.

Family

The son of Alfred Le Messurier,[1] [2] and Jane Sinclair Le Messurier, née Neill,[3] Alfred Roy Le Messurier was born at Semaphore, South Australia on 19 February 1886.[4]

He married Margaret Galway Saunders (-1970), at Semaphore, on 17 April 1912.[5]

Education

He was educated at Semaphore Collegiate School and at the Collegiate School of St Peter.[6]

Employment

At 16, Roy entered his father's shipping agency, A. & E. Le Messurier, where he specialized in importing timber from Tasmania for local furniture-makers and developed it into a significant enterprise.

Football

He played for Port Adelaide before the family moved to North Adelaide in 1908, and he qualified for the North Adelaide team under the electorate system. He played at North Adelaide from 1908–09 and 1910–13, playing 46 games and kicking 4 goals.

He played for South Australia at the 1908 Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival held in Melbourne.

His younger brother, Frederick Neill Le Messurier (1891-1966), also played with North Adelaide from 1908–10 and 1913–14 (playing with the Adelaide University Football Club from 1911–12).

Le Messurier later re-joined Port Adelaide as a committeeman.

Death

He died at Fitzroy, South Australia on 5 October 1946.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212967614 Obituary: The Late Mr. Alfred Le Messurier: Passing of a Prominent Shipping Man, Port Adelaide News, (Friday, 17 June 1927), p.4.
  2. http://www.guernsey-society.org.uk/acrobat/Le%20Mesurier%20Rough%20Index%20v4%20final.pdf The Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family
  3. Web site: Family Notices. Express and Telegraph . 8 July 1880. 10 May 2023. Trove.
  4. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197811025 Births: Le Messurier, The (Adelaide) Evening Journal, (Monday, 22 February 1886), p.2.
  5. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5350252 Marriages: LeMessurier—Saunders, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Monday, 10 June 1912), p.8.
  6. Web site: Mr. A. R. LeMessurier Dies After Illness. Advertiser . 7 October 1946. 10 May 2023. Trove.
  7. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35759838 Deaths: Le Messurier, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Monday, 7 October 1946), p.14.