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| Robert Percy LORD (1878 - 1938) |
| b. 28 Jan 1878 at Gympie, Queensland, Australia |
| m. (1) 10 Jul 1907 Nelsie (Nelse) Charlotte WICKS (1887 - 1916) at Beecroft, Sydney, Australia |
| m. (2) 08 Feb 1921 Ethel Violet SEFTON at Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia |
| d. 29 Jan 1938 at Sydney, NSW, Australia aged 60 |
| Near Relatives of Robert Percy LORD (1878 - 1938) | ||||||
| Relationship | Person | Born | Birth Place | Died | Death Place | Age |
| Grandfather | Simeon LORD | 19 May 1810 | NSW, Australia | 15 Jun 1892 | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | 82 |
| Grandmother | Sarah BIRCH | 13 Oct 1813 | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | 30 Jan 1892 | Paddington, Sydney, NSW, Australia | 78 |
| Grandfather | John William HILLCOAT | abt 1829 | Bath, Somerset, England | 17 Feb 1907 | Sydney, NSW, Australia | 78 |
| Grandmother | Catherine Ellen MANT | abt 1828 | 07 Jun 1903 | Longueville, Lane Cove River, NSW, Australia | 75 | |
| Father in Law | George WICKS | |||||
| Mother in Law | Sarah Mercilla (WICKS) | |||||
| Father | Alfred Percy LORD | 26 Oct 1852 | Avoca, Tasmania, Australia | 18 May 1927 | Manly, NSW, Australia | 74 |
| Mother | Catherine Anna Louise HILLCOAT | 04 Jun 1852 | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | 1907 | Paddington, Sydney, NSW, Australia | 55 |
| Self | Robert Percy LORD | 28 Jan 1878 | Gympie, Queensland, Australia | 29 Jan 1938 | Sydney, NSW, Australia | 60 |
| Wife | Nelsie (Nelse) Charlotte WICKS | 01 Jan 1887 | 1916 | Queensland, Australia | 29 | |
| Wife | Ethel Violet SEFTON | |||||
| Daughter | Beryl Phyllis LORD | 07 Feb 1912 | 1992 | 80 | ||
| Brother | Reginald Simeon LORD | 1879 | Queensland, Australia | 13 Oct 1931 | Augathella, Queensland, Australia | 52 |
| Sister | Catherine Ruby LORD | 1881 | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | 27 Jun 1953 | 72 | |
| Sister | Louisa Pearl Gertrude LORD | 1883 | Queensland, Australia | 1954 | Sydney, NSW, Australia | 71 |
| Sister | Mabel Beryl LORD | 1885 | Queensland, Australia | 1968 | Queensland, Australia | 83 |
| Brother | Alfred Victor LORD | 1887 | Queensland, Australia | 1984 | 97 | |
| Brother | Francis Guy LORD | 1889 | Queensland, Australia | 14 Feb 1927 | Manly, NSW, Australia | 38 |
| Brother | Arthur Brougham LORD | 1894 | Queensland, Australia | 18 Jun 1982 | Buderim, Queensland, Australia | 88 |
| Uncle | Francis Alan LORD | 14 Aug 1832 | Avoca, Tasmania, Australia | 1918 | St Leonards, North Sydney, NSW, Australia | 86 |
| Aunt | Annie Louisa O'BRIEN | |||||
| Aunt | Louisa LORD | 26 Aug 1833 | Avoca, Tasmania, Australia | 26 Feb 1866 | Homesdale, Brisbane, Queensland | 32 |
| Uncle | William Alcock TULLY | Ireland | 1905 | Sydney, NSW, Australia | ||
| Uncle | William LORD | 05 Jan 1835 | Avoca, Tasmania, Australia | 25 Sep 1906 | Queensland, Australia | 71 |
| Uncle | George LORD | 01 Apr 1837 | Avoca, Tasmania, Australia | 12 Feb 1841 | Avoca, Tasmania, Australia | 3 |
| Uncle | Edward LORD | 21 Oct 1838 | Avoca, Tasmania, Australia | 09 Aug 1839 | 0 | |
| Aunt | Emma LORD | 15 Mar 1840 | Avoca, Tasmania, Australia | 01 Nov 1918 | Woollahara, Sydney, NSW, Australia | 78 |
| Uncle | George John Taylor AIREY | 1905 | Sydney, NSW, Australia | |||
| Uncle | Frederick LORD | 08 Nov 1841 | Avoca, Tasmania, Australia | 05 Dec 1914 | Queensland, Australia | 73 |
| Aunt | Mary DaCosta WARNER | 1925 | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | |||
| Uncle | Robert Stuart LORD | 22 Jul 1844 | Avoca, Tasmania, Australia | 23 Jul 1878 | Gympie, Queensland, Australia | 34 |
| Aunt | Louisa LISTER | 1838 | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England | 23 Mar 1908 | Kensington, London, Middlesex, England | 70 |
| Uncle | Simeon Fitz Herbert LORD | 13 May 1847 | Tasmania, Australia | 12 Jul 1916 | Queensland, Australia | 69 |
| Aunt | Mary ROSS | |||||
| Aunt | Sarah LORD | 1854 | Tasmania, Australia | |||
| Aunt | Ethel Maria Millicent HILLCOAT | 1943 | Mosman, NSW, Australia | |||
| Uncle | John Henry ALLEN | |||||
| Uncle | Henry Egerton HILLCOAT | 04 Mar 1854 | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | 16 Nov 1919 | Queensland, Australia | 65 |
| Aunt | Harriet Miriam JAMES | 1858 | St. Helens, Isle of Wight, England | 05 Sep 1944 | Queensland, Australia | 86 |
| Aunt | Georgina Fanny Alicia HILLCOAT | 19 May 1855 | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | 02 Apr 1942 | Queensland, Australia | 86 |
| Uncle | Henry ROSS | |||||
| Uncle | Arthur William Mant HILLCOAT | 1856 | First Creek, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | 11 May 1935 | Queensland, Australia | 79 |
| Aunt | Eleanor Madeline (Ellen ELizabeth) BREDE | 17 May 1926 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Uncle | Reginald Edward Rowe HILLCOAT | 1860 | Maitland, NSW, Australia | 1925 | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | 65 |
| Aunt | Elizabeth Fisher (Lizzie) CLARK | 02 Nov 1938 | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | |||
| Aunt | Florence Ella Violet HILLCOAT | 1864 | Maitland, NSW, Australia | 11 Apr 1963 | Queensland, Australia | 99 |
| Uncle | Stuart Montague CRAIES | 04 Mar 1859 | Queensland, Australia | 27 Aug 1936 | Queensland, Australia | 77 |
| Uncle | Leslie Cecil Brougham HILLCOAT | 1867 | Maitland, NSW, Australia | 10 Apr 1937 | Queensland, Australia | 70 |
| Aunt | Annie Catherine OVERLACK | 1873 | Queensland, Australia | 1953 | New Lambton, NSW, Australia | 80 |
| Uncle | Harold John Burke HILLCOAT | 26 Sep 1869 | Queensland, Australia | 01 Aug 1939 | Queensland, Australia | 69 |
| Aunt | Margaret Jane MORELAND | 1872 | Queensland, Australia | 1962 | Queensland, Australia | 90 |
| Cousin | Evelyn LORD | |||||
| Cousin | Ruby Walditch LORD | 1903 | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Eric Egerton ALLEN | 1969 | Albury, NSW, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Vivian John ALLEN | 1880 | Queensland, Australia | 1944 | Mosman, NSW, Australia | 64 |
| Cousin | George Kingsmill ALLEN | 1881 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Catherine Ellie ALLEN | 1883 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Minnie Ethel ALLEN | 1883 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Alice Mona ALLEN | 1885 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Isabel Florence ALLEN | 1889 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Lorna Martha ALLEN | 1901 | Queensland, Australia | 1979 | NSW, Australia | 78 |
| Cousin | Noel John Rule ALLEN | 1901 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Paul Abbott ALLEN | 1901 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Bertie Edgerton HILLCOAT | 1886 | Queensland, Australia | 16 May 1950 | Queensland, Australia | 64 |
| Cousin | Harold Vivian HILLCOAT | 05 Jun 1889 | Queensland, Australia | 1889 | Queensland, Australia | 0 |
| Cousin | Charles Henry HILLCOAT | 17 Jun 1890 | Queensland, Australia | 16 Feb 1951 | Queensland, Australia | 60 |
| Cousin | Leslie Reginald HILLCOAT | abt 1894 | 06 Jun 1911 | Muttaburra, Queensland, Australia | 17 | |
| Cousin | Gordon Oakleigh HILLCOAT | 14 Jun 1895 | 21 Jun 1982 | Gympie, Queensland, Australia | 87 | |
| Cousin | Henry Ivanhoe Hillcoat ROSS | 1876 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Percy William Lochiel ROSS | Mar 1877 | Queensland, Australia | 15 Aug 1883 | Maryborough, Queensland, Australia | 6 |
| Cousin | Alicia Ann Violet ROSS | 1879 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Herbert Cecil Brodie ROSS | 1881 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Catherine Ada Mary ROSS | 16 Aug 1883 | Maryborough, Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Lawrence Outram Mant ROSS | 1886 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Nina Edith Muriel HILLCOAT | 23 Apr 1883 | Queensland, Australia | 23 Mar 1959 | Queensland, Australia | 75 |
| Cousin | Catherine May HILLCOAT | 10 Feb 1885 | Queensland, Australia | 09 Mar 1959 | Queensland, Australia | 74 |
| Cousin | Harold Arthur HILLCOAT | 1887 | Queensland, Australia | 24 Apr 1943 | Barcaldine, Queensland, Australia | 56 |
| Cousin | Eric George HILLCOAT | 01 Jan 1889 | Queensland, Australia | 1970 | Burwood, New South Wales, Australia | 81 |
| Cousin | Jessie Gladys HILLCOAT | 24 Dec 1891 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Gwendoline Mary Esmee HILLCOAT | 17 May 1895 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Catherine (Katie) Ellen Christina HILLCOAT | 14 Jan 1899 | 'Boomara' Station, Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Mary (Molly) Dorothy HILLCOAT | 29 Jun 1901 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Doreen HILLCOAT | 12 Oct 1903 | Queensland, Australia | 16 Oct 1903 | Queensland, Australia | 0 |
| Cousin | Charles Stuart CRAIES | 23 Jul 1890 | Queensland, Australia | 03 Sep 1916 | Queensland, Australia | 26 |
| Cousin | Clara Sabina CRAIES | 03 Jan 1894 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Mona Mary HILLCOAT | 10 Dec 1900 | Queensland, Australia | 1974 | Longreach, Queensland, Australia | 74 |
| Cousin | Leslie William HILLCOAT | 23 Jan 1905 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Ellen Catherine HILLCOAT | 15 Aug 1906 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Joyce Millicent HILLCOAT | 1910 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Roland Egerton HILLCOAT | 1913 | Queensland, Australia | 1977 | NSW, Australia | 64 |
| Cousin | Agnes Ivy HILLCOAT | |||||
| Cousin | Charles Howard HILLCOAT | 21 May 1891 | Queensland, Australia | 17 Oct 1917 | Belgium | 26 |
| Cousin | Florence Gertrude HILLCOAT | 10 Jan 1893 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Percy Newton HILLCOAT | 20 Jun 1894 | Queensland, Australia | 28 Oct 1908 | Queensland, Australia | 14 |
| Cousin | Mabel Grace HILLCOAT | 19 Mar 1896 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Claud Robert HILLCOAT | 23 Jun 1897 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | George Seymour HILLCOAT | 02 Apr 1899 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Cousin | John Edward HILLCOAT | 04 Feb 1902 | Queensland, Australia | 20 Dec 1964 | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | 62 |
| Cousin | Mona (Nona) Violet HILLCOAT | 27 Mar 1904 | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Niece | Mary Darbishire LORD | 1911 | Queensland, Australia | 1915 | Queensland, Australia | 4 |
| Nephew | Reginald Alfred Darbishire LORD | 1912 | Queensland, Australia | 1912 | Queensland, Australia | 0 |
| Nephew | David LORD | |||||
| Sister in Law | Alice Helene DARBISHIRE | |||||
| Sister in Law | Maud J BLAKE | |||||
| Events in Robert Percy LORD (1878 - 1938)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 28 Jan 1878 | Robert Percy LORD was born | Gympie, Queensland, Australia | Note 1 | ||
| 1907 | 29 | Death of mother Catherine Anna Louise HILLCOAT (aged 55) | Paddington, Sydney, NSW, Australia | Note 2 | 52 |
| 10 Jul 1907 | 29 | Married Nelsie (Nelse) Charlotte WICKS (aged 20) | Beecroft, Sydney, Australia | Note 3 | 17 |
| 07 Feb 1912 | 34 | Birth of daughter Beryl Phyllis LORD | 54 | ||
| 1916 | 38 | Death of wife Nelsie (Nelse) Charlotte WICKS (aged 29) | Queensland, Australia | Note 4 | |
| 08 Feb 1921 | 43 | Married Ethel Violet SEFTON | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Note 5 | |
| 18 May 1927 | 49 | Death of father Alfred Percy LORD (aged 74) | Manly, NSW, Australia | Note 6 | |
| 29 Jan 1938 | 60 | Robert Percy LORD died | Sydney, NSW, Australia | Note 7 | |
| Personal Notes: |
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http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1469449?q=Hillcoat&c=people
LORD, ROBERT PERCY (1878-1938), sheep breeder, was born on 28 January 1878 at Gympie, Queensland, eldest of eight children of Alfred Percy Lord (d.1927), farmer, later bank manager, and his wife Catherine Annie Louise, née Hillcoat. Alfred's grandfather was Simeon Lord. Educated at Mr Marks's school, Brisbane, and in 1893 at Brisbane Grammar School, Robert entered pastoral work when his father bought Kiah Lake, near Berridale, New South Wales, in 1894. Later Robert and other family members managed or owned properties in the Narrabri and Wee Waa district. Australian Dictionary of Biography http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10295b.htm?hilite=Hillcoat LORD, ROBERT PERCY (1878-1938), sheep breeder, was born on 28 January 1878 at Gympie, Queensland, eldest of eight children of Alfred Percy Lord (d.1927), farmer, later bank manager, and his wife Catherine Annie Louise, née Hillcoat. Alfred's grandfather was Simeon Lord. Educated at Mr Marks's school, Brisbane, and in 1893 at Brisbane Grammar School, Robert entered pastoral work when his father bought Kiah Lake, near Berridale, New South Wales, in 1894. Later Robert and other family members managed or owned properties in the Narrabri and Wee Waa district. In 1906 A. P. Lord bought Victoria Downs, 30,000 acres (12,000 ha), near Morven in south-western Queensland. Robert became manager, then a partner with his brothers, and in 1922 sole owner. At Beecroft, Sydney, on 10 July 1907 he had married with Presbyterian forms Nelsie Charlotte Wicks. They had four daughters. Nelsie died in childbirth in 1916. On 8 February 1921 at St James's Church of England, Toowoomba, Queensland, Robert married Ethel Violet Sefton. Lord led the establishment of a stud merino flock on Victoria Downs in 1911. The foundation stock, of Peppin blood, was from T. Millear's Deniliquin Stud Park, with some additional rams from Wanganella Estate. Later Lord also bought rams from E. E. I. Body's Bundemar and F. B. S. Falkiner's Haddon Rig studs. He steadily reiterated his goal: to produce sheep that had plain bodies, large frames, strong backs and hardy constitutions, bred in Queensland for Queensland conditions. Victoria Downs wool was predominantly of medium fibre, but Lord was content for some to be of stronger type. The Lord brothers also set up a stud of Shorthorn cattle, with purchases of stock from about 1917 to 1921. Eventually, however, the Shorthorn stud could not maintain its place against studs in the southern Darling Downs and coastal regions. Through the later 1920s and the 1930s Victoria Downs was regularly described as Queensland's leading merino stud. Its rams were normally priced top or second at annual ram sales in Queensland, competing against New South Wales studs. Land legislation in 1927 gave concessions that promoted the establishment of larger stud flocks in Queensland. Contemporary discussion could well have used Lord's station as a model. When the Queensland Merino Stud Sheepbreeders' Association was formed in 1934, Lord was elected its president unopposed. The dedication and optimism of his remarks in the association's Foundation Souvenir Book (1935) offset his down-to-earth listing—at the first annual meeting—of their problems: drought, blowflies, 'dogs' and taxes. Lord was often a vice-president or councillor of public bodies centred on Charleville, such as the Murweh Shire Council, Central Warrego Pastoral and Agricultural Association and Warrego Graziers' Association. He led the renaissance of the Morven Cottage Hospital under the Bush Nursing Association in 1929. With a neat figure, moustached, he was an enthusiastic sportsman, particularly enjoying cricket. Visitors described the friendly hospitality and good humour of the 'bright household' at Victoria Downs. Robert Lord died of a cerebrovascular accident on 29 January 1938 in Sydney and was buried in the Anglican cemetery at Manly. His wife and children survived him. A championship trophy at the Queensland State Sheep Show was named after him. Descendants, the Roberts family, still held Victoria Downs in 2005. Select Bibliography M. J. Fox, The History of Queensland, vol 2 (Brisb, 1921); Queensland Merino Stud Sheepbreeders’ Association Souvenir Book (1935 and 1983); M. Roberts (ed), Morven (Morven, Qld, 1987); C. Massy, The Australian Merino (Melb, 1990); Dalgety’s Review, July 1911, p 57; Pastoral Review, Feb 1921, p 160, June 1930, p 537, Feb 1938, p 131; Graziers’ Review, Feb 1923, p 1153; Queensland Country Life, 3 Feb 1938, p 4. Author: S. J. Routh Print Publication Details: S. J. Routh, 'Lord, Robert Percy (1878 - 1938)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, Melbourne University Press, 2005, pp 238-239. Longreach Leader 5 Feb 1938 MR. ROBERT P. LORD The death is announced in Sydney of Mr. Robert Percy Lord, of Victoria Downs, Morven, which occurred on Saturday last. Mr. Lord, who was 60 years of age, was taken by special plane to Sydney a few weeks ago, when his condition was considered to be serious. He was one of the foremost figures in the merino sheep breeding industry in Queensland; his Victoria Downs Stud supplying high class rams to Queensland and New South Wales graziers for many years. He was a son of the late Mr. A. P. Lord, who purchased Victoria Downs in 1906 and made it over to his sons in 1914. He took a prominent part in all public affairs, both local and in the wider national field, and one of his particular interests has been the Bush Nursing Association . He has acted as sheep judge at the Sydney annual sheep show and also at Charleville, Roma and other sheep shows. He is survived by his widow and twin daughters. Courier Mail 15 March 1938 Robert Percy Lord, of Victoria Downs, Morven, grazier, died at Sydney (N.S.W.) on January 29. His will, which was admitted to probate yesterday, directed that £72,565 gross be divided .among his family. The estate consisted of realty £1000 and personalty £71,565 The Argus 31 March 1938 The will of Robert Percy Lord of Victoria Downs Morven (Q), grazier, who died on January 29, has been lodged in the Supreme Court for reseal of probate. He left personal property in Victoria of a gross value of £3 087 to his widow and children subject to certain legacies Cairns Post 17 Aug 1938 VICTORIA DOWNS STUD. NO BID AT AUCTION. BRISBANE, August 16. The well-known Queensland sheep stud,Victoria Downs, at Morven was offered at public auction to-day on behalf of the executors of the estate of the late Mr. Robert Percy Lord, who established it in 1911. No bid, however, was received. |
| Source References: |
| 17. Type: Vital Record, Abbr: NSW bdm register, Title: NSW bdm register |
| - Reference = (Marriage) |
| - Notes: Reg No 8673/1907 - Robert P Lord and Nelsie C Wicks - registed in Ryde |
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