Obituaries Australia

27 March, 1933
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

11 January, 2017 (aged 83)
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia

heart disease

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• Fairfax, Marcie Elizabeth (mother)
• Fairfax, Warwick Oswald (father)
• Fairfax, Mary (stepmother)
• Simpson, Caroline (sister)
• Gilly, Edward (half-brother)
• Simpson, Edward Philip (brother-in-law)
• Fairfax, James Oswald (grandfather)

• Cranbrook School (Sydney) (student, 1938-1944)
• Geelong Grammar School (Vic) (student, 1945-1950)
• Oxford University (student, 1951-1953)

• art collector (1950-2017) New South Wales, Australia
• newspaper owner (1957-2000) New South Wales, Australia
• arts patron (1965-2017) New South Wales, Australia

• Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1993)
• Companion of the Order of Australia (recipient, 2010)

• Art Gallery of New South Wales (benefactor, ?-2017)
• Art Gallery of New South Wales (life governor, ?-2017)
• National Gallery of Australia (benefactor, ?-2017)
• National Gallery of Australia (life governor, ?-2017)

• John Fairfax & Sons Pty Ltd (company director, 1957-1987)
• John Fairfax & Sons Pty Ltd (chair of board, 1977-1987)