Australian public servant, newspaper owner, company manager and editor
Gresley Lukin |
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 Gresley Lukin about 1880 (photo: Brisbane Courier 1926) |
Born | (1840-11-21)21 November 1840
Launceston, Tasmania |
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Died | 12 September 1916(1916-09-12) (aged 75)
Wellington, New Zealand |
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Occupation(s) | Journalist, newspaper proprietor, editor-in-chief of the Brisbane Courier and its weekly the Queenslander, later the Queensland Boomerang 1890-1892, from 1896-1916 editor-in-chief of the Evening Post in Wellington, New Zealand. |
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Years active | 1873-1880 (In Queensland) 1893-1916 (in New Zealand) |
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Employer | Brisbane Newspaper Co |
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Political party | independent liberal-oriented |
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Spouse | Rebekah Hall |
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Gresley Lukin (1840–1916) was an Australian public servant, newspaper owner, company manager and newspaper editor, most prominently the part-proprietor of the Brisbane Newspaper Company (publisher of the Brisbane Courier and its weekly The Queenslander) from November 1873 to December 1880, then and still the leading journal in Queensland under the name The Courier-Mail.