Robert Dickson Alison Frew

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Robert Dickson Alison Frew (died 1930) was a civil engineer and tennis enthusiast in Queensland, Australia. He was also involved in local government.

Queensland North-east state of Australia

Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).

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Tennis

Robert Frew was the president of the Queensland Lawn Tennis Association from 1910 to 1930. He was the driving force behind the creation of the Milton Tennis Centre in Milton, Brisbane. The Milton Tennis Centre closed in 1999 because of heavy financial losses by Tennis Queensland. In 2014, the site was redeveloped as Frew Park, a combined park and tennis centre. Frew Park was opened on 29 November 2014 and is named after Robert Frew. [1] [2]

Milton, Queensland Suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Milton is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia, approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of the central business district. The suburb is a mixture of light industry, warehouses, commercial offices, retail and single and multiple occupancy residences. The main roads are Milton Road, which runs beside the main western rail line and Coronation Drive, which runs along the Brisbane River.

Brisbane capital city of Queensland, Australia

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of 2.5 million, and the South East Queensland region, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3.5 million. The Brisbane central business district stands on the historic European settlement and is situated inside a peninsula of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range, sprawling across several of Australia's most populous local government areas (LGAs) — most centrally the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. The demonym of Brisbane is "Brisbanite".

Local government

Robert Frew served on the Sherwood Divisional Board. [3]

Personal life

Robert Frew was educated at Scots College, Melbourne. [4]

Scotch College, Melbourne school in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Scotch College is an independent Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Melbourne City in Victoria, Australia

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Its name refers to an urban agglomeration of 9,992.5 km2 (3,858.1 sq mi), comprising a metropolitan area with 31 municipalities, and is also the common name for its city centre. The city occupies much of the coastline of Port Phillip bay and spreads into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. It has a population of approximately 4.9 million, and its inhabitants are referred to as "Melburnians".

Aged 23 years old, Robert Frew married widow Elizabeth Constance Brown (née Harding) in Queensland on 26 July 1882. [5] They were the parents of engineer Harding Frew, best known as the engineer of the William Jolly Bridge in Brisbane.

Alison Eavis Harding Frew (1883-1952), known professionally as "Harding Frew", was an Australian civil engineer primarily concerned with engineering projects in Queensland, his home state.

William Jolly Bridge

The William Jolly Bridge is a heritage-listed road bridge over the Brisbane River between North Quay in the Brisbane CBD and Grey Street in South Brisbane, within City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by A E Harding Frew and built from 1928 to 1932 by M R Hornibrook Ltd.

Robert Frew died suddenly from a seizure at Valhalla, Balfour Road, East Bellvue Hill, Sydney on Thursday 20 November 1930 aged 71 years. He had retired to Sydney a few months before his death. He played tennis up until his death. [4] [6] He was buried in Sherwood Anglican Cemetery in Sherwood, Brisbane on Monday 24 November 1930. [4] [7]

Sydney City in New South Wales, Australia

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Port Jackson and extends about 70 km (43.5 mi) on its periphery towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, 40 local government areas and 15 contiguous regions. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". As of June 2017, Sydney's estimated metropolitan population was 5,131,326, and is home to approximately 65% of the state's population.

Sherwood, Queensland Suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Sherwood is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is 8.3 kilometres (5.2 mi) south west of the Brisbane CBD and borders the Brisbane River. The suburb is mostly low and medium-density housing with a retail strip centred along Sherwood Road. At the 2016 Australian Census the suburb recorded a population of 5,313.

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References

  1. "Frew Park". Magnificent Milton. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  2. Quirk, Graham. "Tennis Royalty honoured at opening of Frew Park". Graham Quirk, Lord Mayor of Brisbane . Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  3. "Classified Advertising". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 9 July 1895. p. 2. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 "OBITUARY. Mr. R. D. A. Frew." The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 21 November 1930. p. 17. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  5. Queensland Registrar-General Index of Marriages 1882/C890
  6. "Family Notices". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 24 November 1930. p. 10. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  7. "OBITUARY. Mr. R. D. A. Frew's Funeral." The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 25 November 1930. p. 6. Retrieved 5 February 2015.