1. Sir Samuel Hordern was an Australian businessman, animal breeder and philanthropist.
10 Facts About Samuel Hordern
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Samuel Hordern was born on 24 September 1876 at Retford Hall, Darling Point in Sydney, the eldest son of Samuel Hordern and Jane Maria Booth.
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On 4 March 1900, Samuel Hordern married Charlotte Isabel Annie See, daughter of Premier Sir John See, at St Jude's Anglican Church, Randwick and they had one son and two daughters.
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Samuel Hordern publicly listed the company in 1912 and restructured it in 1920.
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Samuel Hordern was a director of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, from 1915, and was its Chairman for fifteen years, until 1947.
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Samuel Hordern was a keen cattle, dog and horse breeder, and owner of racehorses, including the 1919 Melbourne Cup winner 'Artilleryman'.
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Samuel Hordern was knighted in 1919, received the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal and the King George VI Coronation Medal, and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1938 Birthday Honours.
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Samuel Hordern was president of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales and developed the Sydney Royal Easter Show into a major national event.
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On 1 December 1917 Samuel Hordern purchased on behalf on an interested group of benefactors, the former vice-regal residence, Cranbrook in Bellevue Hill, from the Government of New South Wales for a Church of England boys' school and contributed towards the establishment in 1926 of a Church of England girls' school in the same area: Kambala School.
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Samuel Hordern died age 79 on the same day as his sister, Jane, at his Darling Point residence, "Babworth House", on 3 June 1956.