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.
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.