Victor Courtney

Infobox person
name = Victor Desmond Courtney
birth_date = 27 May 1894
birth_place = Raymond Terrace, New South Wales
death_date = 1 December 1970
death_place = Mount Lawley, Western Australia
occupation = Journalist, author, and newspaper proprietor.
parents = Henry Courtney
Katie Courtney (née O'Connor)
spouse = Thela Pearl Richards (m.1937, d.1962)
children = 1 (Veecee)

Victor Desmond Courtney (27 May 1894 – 1 December 1970) was a Western Australian journalist. From small beginings in a partnership (with John Joseph Simons) in a weekly sporting newpaper, Courtney ended up as the managing director of the The Sunday Times and owner of a network of thirty regional newpapers.

Bibliography

* "Random Rhymes", 1941.
* "Cold is the Marble", 1948.
* "All I May Tell", 1956.
* "The Life Story of J. J. Simons", 1961.
* "Perth—and All This!", 1962.

External links

* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130570b.htm Courtney's "Australian Dictionary of Biography" entry.]