Frederick Wymark Explained

Frederick Victor Grey Wymark
Birth Place:Stawell, Victoria, Australia
Birth Date:6 October 1872
Death Place:Church Point, New South Wales, Australia
Death Date:`19 October 1942 (aged 80)
Occupation:Bookseller, book and manuscript collector, collector of Australiana

Frederick Victor Grey Wymark (6 October 1872 – 19 October 1942) was an Australian Australiana collector, book collector and bookseller.

Biography

Wymark was born in Stawell, Victoria to a local Victorian mother and British father, he came to Sydney in 1884 and grew up in Wooloomooloo, when David Angus opened a book store in Market Street, Sydney, Wymark became his assistant and was then apprenticed by Angus in 1890, Angus subsequently with his business partner established the retailer Angus & Robertson bookstores. After David Angus died in 1900, Wymark took over the majority share of the company with George Robertson. Wymark died in Church Point, New South Wales in 1942.

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