- Horrie Knight
Horace Raymond Knight OAM (1 December 1915 – 6 June 1990) was a South Australian-born business man (independent
grocer ) &philanthropist .Knight spent much of his early life in
Broken Hill, New South Wales . DuringWorld War II he served in the Australian Army 2/8th Field Ambulance and was a Rat of Tobruk.On Knight's return, he began building a chain of self service supermarkets starting in Prospect and subsequently in Salisbury and Elizabeth. He was well known for providing employment and generally being active in the community as Horrie devoted a lot of time & money to local charitable organisations, namely Rotary. He became the president of the
Rotary Club of Elizabeth in (1974/75) [ [http://www.alfasoft.com.au/erc/timeline.htm TimeLine - for the Rotary Club of Elizabeth ] ] [ [http://www.alfasoft.com.au/erc/ Rotary Club of Elizabeth, South Australia ] ] and a Paul Harris Fellow, inducted on 26 June 1974. In 1976 he was Elizabeth's first Citizen of the Year. In addition to his work with Rotary, Horrie was also a founding member of the Elizabeth & Districts Foundation, now known as the United Way (North).He was awarded the Medal of the
Order of Australia in 1990 [ [http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=875754&search_type=quick&showInd=true It's an Honour - Honours - Search Australian Honours ] ] [ [http://www.adam.com.au/saorderofaust/Members/MembersK.html Members [K ] ] for his life-long commitment to charitable work in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, but died before the presentation ceremony; (accepted posthumously by his wife).Following his death, the H.R. Knight Memorial Trust was established to award individuals or groups who have made an outstanding achievement in the areas of education, arts, literature, music, athletics, and healthy amateur sport.
More recently a reserve in Blakeview, was named after Knight in 2004 [http://www.playford.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/7_1_Local_Park_-_various.pdf] . The Horrie Knight Reserve can be found off Balmoral cct & Cherrytree cr in Blakeview.
Knight was married at the Adelaide suburb of Enfield on 16 November 1940 to Laurel Mary Hall (25 October 1918 - ) and their marriage produced three children: David (12 February 1945 - ), Stephen (7 November 1947 - ), Penelope (28 December 1951 - ).
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