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Australian businessman

Alfred Jabez Roberts ( – 3 July ), generally referred to as A. J. Roberts, was a South Australian businessman and sporting identity.

Aj roberts wiki

History

Roberts was born Jabez Alfred Roberts at Queen street, Norwood, son of William Henry Roberts and Ellen Roberts (26 June – 28 March ), née Wearing, a sister of Justice Wearing. His father ran the flour mill on West Terrace, Adelaide.^[1] He was educated at the Norwood Grammar School and Wesley College, Melbourne, and gained employment first with G.

Wood, Son & Co., and then the Bank of Adelaide. In he got a position with W. L. Ware's firm of accountants, then inn went into business for himself as company secretary and accountant. Later that year he purchased a seat on the Stock Exchange, of which he was elected president in Around he went into partnership with Davenport and Smith,^[a] stockbrokers, who had an office in the Bank of Australasia Chambers, and subsequently opened