Alfred Augustus Sleight

1839 - 1896  (57 years)

• Name	Alfred Augustus Sleight
  Born	4 Feb 1839	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
  	Name: Sleight, Alfred Augustus Record Type: Births Gender: Male Father: Sleight, John Mother: Atkinson, Eliza Date of birth: 04 Feb 1839 Registered: Launceston Registration year: 1839 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1104049 Resource: RGD33/1/23/ no 59 (Tasmania Name Index) Marriage Sleight, John Record Type: Marriages Gender: Male Spouse: Atkinson, Eliza Gender: Female Date of marriage: 02 Sep 1836 Registered: Launceston Registration year: 1836 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:822997 Resource: RGD36/1/3 no 3488 (Tasmania Names Index Online) John Sleight per ship Providence snd Eliza Atkinson per ship Layton, married by Banns, Scots Church. Name: Sleight, John Record Type: Departures Departure date: 8 Mar 1837 Departure port: Launceston Ship: Enterprize Bound to: Port Phillip Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:608080 Resource: POL459/1/1 p4 (Tasmania Names Index Online) All to be sorted yet Brockhoff, Sir Jack Stuart (1908?1984) by Robert Murray This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (MUP), 2007 Sir Jack Stuart Brockhoff (1908-1984), manufacturer and philanthropist, was born on 11 March 1908 in South Melbourne, third and youngest son of Victorian-born parents Frederick Douglas Brockhoff (1868-1961), manufacturer, and his wife Lola Landon, née Sleight. Frederick?s father, Adolph, had migrated from Mecklenburg, Germany, to Victoria and started the biscuit-manufacturing firm A. F. Brockhoff & Co. Entering the business early in life, Frederick became governing director of the company, which was renamed Brockhoff?s Biscuits Pty Ltd. Lola, who had been born into the Sleight family of undertakers, was a woman of strong social convictions. Jack attended Wesley College. He and his brothers, Harold Frederick (1902-1966) and Alan Bruce (1904-1989), were to spend most of their working lives with the family firm, controlling it after World War II. In a felicitous spread of abilities and interests, Harold managed the marketing side, Alan the manufacturing operation and Jack the administrative, financial and corporate functions. This split of responsibilities enabled the brothers to work together harmoniously, while keeping their distance. Each was a director in charge of his sector. Jack was also managing director and later chairman. All three had a remarkable physical resemblance, though substantial differences of personality. Staff addressed them as `Mr Jack?, `Mr Harold? and `Mr Alan?, and generally the atmosphere was friendly and paternal. After 1945 the brothers anticipated a significant growth in demand for their products. Believing it to be economically imperative that they increase production, they purchased a large block of former market-gardening land at East Burwood in 1951 and opened an ambitious new factory there in 1953. The scale of operation allowed by the extra space and new plant gave their firm a competitive advantage and Brockhoff?s share of the market expanded at the expense of its rivals T. B. Guest & Co. Pty Ltd, Swallow & Ariell Ltd and Sunshine Biscuits Ltd. Biscuit manufacturers mostly operated within one State but in the 1950s William Arnott Pty Ltd of Sydney began buying out or merging with interstate firms. When the American-owned Nabisco Pty Ltd entered the Australian market, Arnott?s, Brockhoff?s and Guest?s combined defensively, forming the Australian Biscuit Co. Pty Ltd, but at first keeping their operations separate. Nabisco sought to take over the publicly listed Swallow & Ariell in 1964 and Jack Brockhoff worked closely, shrewdly and courageously with Arnott?s directors to beat Nabisco in a share-market battle, acquiring Swallow & Ariell for the Australian Biscuit Co. Realising that the day of the medium-sized, one-State manufacturer was passing, Brockhoff then led his family firm into a full merger with Arnott?s. The combined company became Arnott?s Biscuits Pty Ltd in 1966 and the Brockhoff name gradually disappeared from supermarket shelves over the next few years. Arnotts Ltd was floated as a public company in 1970. Jack retired as chairman and managing director of the Melbourne operation, Arnott-Brockhoff-Guest Pty Ltd, in 1973 but was to remain a director of Arnotts Ltd until 1984. Reserved, introverted and markedly shy, Brockhoff was nevertheless an astute businessman and investor who was also kind and honest. Much of his wealth came from private investment, an abiding interest. He could be very generous, but abhorred waste, show or pretence. He was a life governor of the Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital, the Royal Children?s Hospital, the Burwood Boys? Home and the Victorian Civil Ambulance. In 1979 he organised a philanthropic trust, the Jack Brockhoff Foundation, and endowed it with $5 million. He was knighted that year. The foundation was dedicated to assisting `the people of Victoria?. Most of its grants were of moderate amounts disbursed to a wide range of charities, but it gave priority to helping children and the elderly, and to funding medical research. On 14 October 1933 at St John?s Church of England, Toorak, Brockhoff had married Claire Cornelia Josephine Herd. The marriage was childless and broke down very quickly; the experience seemed to affect his personality, increasing his reserve. He lived modestly at Sandringham, a hard-drinking bachelor devoted to golf, bowls, sailing, fishing and business, and a member of numerous sporting clubs, including the Victoria Amateur Turf and the Victoria Racing clubs. Unexpectedly, on 27 June 1980 at Sandringham he married, with Uniting Church forms, Ursula Edith Lycoudis, née Hill, a widow who had recently been his housekeeper; the marriage was happy but short. Sir Jack died on 3 September 1984 at his home and was cremated. His will, sworn for probate at $7,455,835, provided the foundation with about $6 million in additional funds and almost $1 million more on the death of Lady Brockhoff in 199 A marriage Mr. A. F.Brockhoff, of "Nithsdale," Caulfield, and Miss Lola Sleight, second daughter of the late Augustus A. Sleight, of " Kieta," East Melbourne, was celebrated at Trinity Church, East Melbourne, on 10th February, at 7 p.m. The service was conducted by the Rev. W. G. Hindley, of Kew. The wedding was a quiet one, invitation being strictly confined to near relatives of the bride and bridegroom. Mr. Joseph Summere, who presided at the organ, played very brilliantly some charming music, including Mendelssohn's Wedding March" and the march from "Lohengrin." The bride was given away by her uncle, Mr. Leslie Gregson, of Seymour, and looked very pretty in a trained robe of white brocade in a rich design ; both sleeves and yokes were of chiffon, very finely goffered. The swathed bodice was of brocade, with a folded waist of white satin falling in long ends at the left side of the skirt. The double epaulettes of brocade were finished with goffered chiffon, cluster of lilies of the valley, and ivory tinted wheatears set in rosettes of chiffon and satin finished the dainty bodice, the square train was lined with white silk and trimmed with bows of satin ribbon and carbon ornaments; also small sprays of lilies of the valley ; her wreath of natural orange blossom was worn under a gracefully arranged veil of fine bridal net, fastened with a handsome diamond spray and brooch ornament. Tbe handsome bouquet of the choicest exotice, mixed with fairy ferns and tied with a handsome sash, was most artistically arranged by Miss Kemp, of Collins street. The bridesmaids were Mjes Ethel Sleight (sister of the bridegroom), who wore soft white silk skirt, deeply frilled with fine Valenciennes lace ; the bodice, also of silk, was cross draped ine front, and inserted and frilled with Valenciennes; an elegant white satin ribbon was passed round the waist, terminating in long ends; a black picture hat was worn, with white plumes. Miss Clara Brocbhoff?rich eau de nil brocade, handsomely trimmed with accordeon-pleated chiffon and pearl passementerie. Miss Popsie Brockhoff wore shrimp pink flnwered glace silk, with bodice of gathered silk chiffon, pretty fichu of white silk reaching to the hetn of her dress ; both sisters wore picture hats, with white plumes. The bridegroom's gifts to the bridesmaids were gold brooches, set with opals, paarls and rubies. They all carried pretty poseys in harmony and contrast with their different frocks. Tiny Kitty, Hell and yueenie Sleight (sister of the bridt) also followed dressed in soft white silk Greenaway frocks, tucued and trimmed with Valenciennes. They both received pretty gold initial brooches from the bridegroom. Mr. Charles Brockhoff was best man. accompanied by Mr. Victor Seward and Mrs. S. Brunton. Mrs. A. A. Sieigbt wore black silk, trimmed with black accordeon chiffon and white lisse folds ; black bonnet and white lisse. Mrs. Gregson also wore black si'k, trimmed with chiffon and jet. After the ceremony they drove to "Kieta,' J where a wedding supper was served and the usuil toasts honoured. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Brockl oT Melbourne Punch Victoria, Thursday, 18 Apr 1897 (Still bieng corrected) Sleight A. A. Pty. Ltd., funeral directors, Head Office located at St. Kilda Rd. Melbourne]
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Nov 1896	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
  	Record information Event: deaths Registration number 14250 / 1896 Family name: SLEIGHT Given name(s) Alf Aug Place of event: Melb E, Australia Personal detail Mother's name , Ella Mother's family name at birth STEWART Father's Name: , Sleight Jno (Victoria Death Index) To be sorted yet SLEIGHT.-On the 10th November at his residence George-street, East Melbourne, Alfred Augustus Sleight, aged 57 years. (The Argus, Melbourne, Victoria, Thursday, 12 Nov 1896) Alfred Augustus Sleight Birth 1870 Death 7 Apr 1941 (aged 70-71) Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia Burial Melbourne General Cemetery Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia Plot MGC-COE-Comp-BBA-No-161 Memorial ID 200899592 Created by: Tony M. Added: 6 Jul 2019 Find a Grave Memorial 200899592 Mary Elizabeth Lyons Sleight Birth 1870 Death 1 Mar 1945 (aged 74?75) Parkville, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia Burial Melbourne General Cemetery Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia Plot MGC-COE-Comp-BBA-No-161 Memorial ID 200899593 Created by: Tony M. Added: 7 Jul 2019 Find a Grave Memorial 200899593
  Buried	Melbourne General Cemetery Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  	Alfred Augustus Sleight Birth 1839 Launceston, Launceston City, Tasmania, Australia Death 10 Nov 1896 (aged 56-57) Victoria, Australia Burial Melbourne General Cemetery Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia Plot MGC-CE-Comp-W-39-40 Memorial ID 145438232 Created by: Tony M. Added: 23 Apr 2015 Find a Grave Memorial 145438232
  Person ID	I16988	Hickey, List, Bundesen, Thomsen, Jensen, Jessen
  Last Modified	23 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	John Lawrence Medd Wright Sleight,   b. 1812, Rotherhithe, Surrey, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 2 Sep 1871, No. 83 Collins-Street East, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Eliza Jane Atkinson,   b. London, England ,   d. 28 Oct 1866, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  Married	2 Sep 1836	Scots Church, Launceston, Tasmania
  	Marriage Sleight, John Record Type: Marriages Gender: Male Spouse: Atkinson, Eliza Gender: Female Date of marriage: 02 Sep 1836 Registered: Launceston Registration year: 1836 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:822997 Resource: RGD36/1/3 no 3488 (Tasmania Names Index Online) John Sleight per ship Providence snd Eliza Atkinson per ship Layton, married by Banns, Scots Church.
  Family ID	F6084	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Jessie Ella Gregson,   b. 1854, Richmond, Yarra City, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 18 Aug 1929, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  (Age 75 years)
  Married	1874	Victoria, Australia
  	Record information Event: marriages Registration number 1303 / 1874 Family name: GREGSON Given name(s) Jessie Ella Personal detail Spouse's family name: SLEIGHT Spouse's given name(s) Alfred Augustas (Victoria Marriage Index)
  Children	+ 1. Roy Agustus Sleight,   bur. 22 Mar 1913, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Victoria, Australia + 2. Lola Landon Sleight,   d. 18 Mar 1939, Fife House, Queen's Road,Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   3. Augustus Leslie Sleight,   b. 1875, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   4. Jessie Ethel Ella Sleight,   b. 1876, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   5. Unnamed Sleight,   b. 1877, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   6. Laura Emiline Sleight,   b. 1879, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   7. Harold Wilson Sleight,   b. 1881, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   8. Stuart Gordon Sleight,   b. 1885, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   9. Kate Bell Sleight,   b. 1889, Melbourne East, Victoria, Australia
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2020
  Family ID	F6082	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Jessie Ella Gregson,   b. 1854, Richmond, Yarra City, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 18 Aug 1929, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  (Age 75 years)
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2020
  Family ID	F6080	Group Sheet