Obituaries Australia

Thomas Knox, n.d.

from Pastoral Review, 15 February 1919

We very much regret to have to record the death of Mr. Thomas Forster Knox, which took place on 19th January, at a private hospital in Sydney. Mr. Knox was closely connected with the pastoral industry for many years as managing director of Dalgety and Go. Limited, and also owned the Wyalong No. 2 Station in New South Wales, as well as being part owner of Coonambula and Cania cattle stations in the Burnett district, Queensland. Mr. Knox was born in 1849, and was the second son of Sir Edward and Lady Knox, of "Fiona," Double Bay, Sydney. He was educated at the Sydney Grammar School, and received his earliest business training in the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, of which his father was managing director. After leaving the bank he entered into business as stock and station agent, in partnership with the late J. de V. Lamb, then went to England, and there joined the firm of Dalgety, Blackwood and Co., going out to New Zealand to take the management of the Christchurch branch of the firm. Subsequently, when the firm was floated into a limited company he was appointed, with Mr. F. H. Moore, a managing director of the company in Sydney.

The position which the company takes to-day in the pastoral and commercial world of the State is evidence of the energy and business capacity of Mr. Knox. His personality impressed itself upon all those who came in contact with him, and the affectionate regard in which he was held by every member of his staff is proof of the interest which he always took in their welfare. He was a man who never sought publicity, and anything in the nature of limelight was repugnant to him, so that the attendance at his funeral by all the leading commercial men of Sydney was the greater tribute to the respect in which he was held. At the time of his death he was a director of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited, of the Permanent Trustee Company, and the Union Insurance Company.

His loss will be keenly felt by a large circle of friends in Sydney, and the community at large is distinctly poorer by the loss of a man of his high integrity and keen business ability.