Alfred Le Messurier
Australian shipping agent
Alfred Le Messurier (24 July 1856 – 16 June 1927) was a shipping agent in Port Adelaide, South Australia. The family name was often styled LeMessurier.
History
Le Messurier was born in Queenstown, South Australia, the eldest son of (sea) Captain Peter Le Messurier (9 December 1815 – 3 March 1876).
He was educated at William Wood Leslie's school at Queenstown, then Rev. Frank Garrett's school at Port Adelaide (became Alfred Martin's grammar school, later Port Adelaide Public School), finally St Peter's College.
Captain Peter Le Messurier was in business as Port Adelaide agent for the various small shipping companies that traded around the South Australian coast, mostly conducted by ketches. In 1872 young Alfred began working for his father, and on whose death in 1876 he took charge of the business, just as sail was giving way to steam. His business interests were centred on Port Adelaide, and the smaller class of steamships. He became secretary of the Coast Company, which had the steamship Ceres. That company was merged in the Yorke's Peninsula Company, which ran Warooka and James Currie (later named Yulta).
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