Jim Millner
{{short description|Australian businessman}}
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| birth_name = James Sinclair Millner
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|11|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|01|24|1919|11|29|df=y}}
| death_place = Cheltenham, New South Wales
| education = Newington College
| alma_mater = University of Sydney
| occupation = Company director
| spouse = Jean Millner
| father = Col. T. G. Millner
| mother = Mary (May) Pattinson
| family = {{ubl|Lewy Pattinson {{smaller|(great grandfather)}}|Robert Millner {{smaller|(nephew)}}|William Frederick Pattinson {{smaller|(grandfather)}}}}
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| nationality = Australian
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James Sinclair Millner {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (29 November 1919 – 24 January 2007) was an Australian corporate executive.{{cite news|last1=Millner|first1=Robert|last2=Millner|first2=Michael|title=A force for a well-known name: Jim Millner, 1919-2007|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/a-force-for-a-wellknown-name/2007/02/21/1171733842238.html|accessdate=21 December 2017|agency=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=22 February 2007}} He was head of many large organisations including chairman of the NRMA, Soul Patts, New Hope Group, Brickworks, Choiseul Investments, Queensland Mines Limited and NBN Television.Who's Who in Australia (Crown Content Melb, 2007) pp 1444: Millner, James Sinclair (1919 - 2007)
Biography
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Millner was born in Sydney on 29 November 1919. His father Thomas George Millner {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|MC|VD}}{{cite web|title=MILLNER, Thomas George - Military Cross |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1092280 |website=It's an Honour database |publisher=Australian Government |accessdate=21 December 2017 |date=1 January 1917 |quote=Service Corps}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15710681 |title=AWARDED THE MILITARY CROSS. |newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald |issue=24,649 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=5 January 1917 |accessdate=21 December 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} was a colonel in the Australian Army and his mother Mary was the daughter of businessman Lewy Pattinson. Millner grew up in Cheltenham, New South Wales, and attended Newington College before studying pharmacy at The University of Sydney. At the breakout of World War II Millner enlisted in the Army Service Corps Officer Training School and was posted to Malaya. When Singapore fell, he became a prisoner of war in Changi Prison Singapore, then later Sandakan, Borneo. He was released at the cessation of hostilities in 1945, shipping out to Morotai and then Balikpapan. Jim Millner married Jean Claveranne in 1948.{{cite interview | author=Linn, Rob | title=Jim Millner interviewed by Rob Linn | date=2006 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21038652 | accessdate=21 December 2017 }} On his return, Millner completed a Materia Medica (Pharmacy) course in 1947 at the University of Sydney, and joined the family company, Soul Patts, where he rose to be director in 1957.{{cite web|title=Soul Pattinson Chemist: An early history|url=http://sydney.edu.au/pharmacy/documents/fiat-mist/fiat-mist-2013-autumn.pdf|website=FIAT Mist: the alumni magazine of the faculty of pharmacy|publisher=University of Sydney Faculty of Pharmacy|accessdate=21 December 2017|pages=8–10|date=March 2013}} Millner was chairman of Soul Patts from 1969 to 1998, when he was succeeded by his nephew, Robert Millner.{{cite news|last1=Cole|first1=Brett|title=MARKETS SPECTATOR: Tom Millner and his brilliant BKI|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator/markets-spectator-tom-millner-and-his-brilliant-bki/news-story/e34953e528ddd29953f50f6be2f1ffa0|accessdate=21 December 2017|agency=The Australian|date=8 June 2013}}{{cite news|last1=Ferguson|first1=Adele|title=Nothing flashy when it's all about family|url=http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/entrepreneur/nothing-flashy-when-its-all-about-family-20091127-jwdq.html|accessdate=21 December 2017|agency=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=26 November 2009}}{{cite book|last1=Bain|first1=Jim|title=A Financial Tale of Two Cities: Sydney and Melbourne's Remarkable Contest for Commercial Supremacy|date=2007|publisher=UNSW Press|pages=224–225|isbn=9780868409634|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HkRbDtgtCtUC|accessdate=21 December 2017}}
Philanthropy and community
Millner supported financially the Australian War Memorial, the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney and served on the council of Newington College. His widow, Jean Millner, endowed the Jim Millner Bursary at Newington giving a boy the opportunity to attend the College from Year 7 until the completion of Year 12.[http://newsletter.newington.nsw.edu.au/alumni/article/celebrating-eighty-years-on-a-gift-remembered/ Celebrating Eighty years on – a gift remembered] Retrieved 13 August 2017. In the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours, Millner was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "Service to industry and the community".{{cite web|title=MILLNER, James Sinclair - Member of the Order of Australia|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/870795|website=It's an Honour database|publisher=Australian Government|accessdate=21 December 2017|date=13 June 1983|quote=AM QB 83 GEN DIV. FOR SERVICE TO INDUSTRY AND TO THE COMMUNITY}}
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Category:People educated at Newington College
Category:World War II prisoners of war held by Japan
Category:Businesspeople from Sydney
Category:Members of the Order of Australia
Category:Members of Newington College Council
Category:Australian prisoners of war
Category:20th-century Australian businesspeople