Victor Courtney
{{Short description|Australian journalist and newspaper editor (1894–1970)}}
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{{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 = {{marriage|Thela Pearl Richards |1937|}} (d.1962)
| children = 1 (Veecee)
}}
Victor Desmond Courtney (27 May 1894 – 1 December 1970) was a Western Australian journalist and newspaper editor.
He began writing early in life, gaining a published story in the Lone Hand in 1910.{{Citation | title=A Westralian Boy’s Impressions of the Eastern States. (31 May 1910) | journal=The Lone hand | publication-date=1910-05-31 | publisher=W. McLeod] | volume=7 | issue=38 | pages=77 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/234028339 | access-date=12 June 2023}}
He was in a partnership (with Jack Simons) in a weekly sporting newspaper, The Call.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108650472 |title=The 'Call.' |newspaper=The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=24 February 1909 |accessdate=12 June 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
He was involved with a Saturday-evening paper, The Mirror.{{Citation | title=“The King of Kings.” An Impression by Victor Courtney in the Perth “Mirror." (13 March 1928) | journal=Everyones | publication-date=1928-03-13 | publisher=Everyones Ltd | volume=9 | issue=419 | pages=40 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/233946292 | access-date=11 June 2023}}
During his time at the Sunday Times, he traveled with his wife before the second world war,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41439325 |title=Impressions Abroad. |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=53 |issue=16,005 |location=Western Australia |date=14 October 1937 |accessdate=12 June 2023 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} as well as after the war writing about post war developments in the world and Australia,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58969455 |title=Victor Courtney |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth) |issue=2199 |location=Western Australia |date=17 March 1940 |accessdate=12 June 2023 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59551793 |title=By Victor Courtney |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth) |issue=2802 |location=Western Australia |date=22 March 1953 |accessdate=12 June 2023 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Courtney ultimately was the managing director of The Sunday Times and at the time, also owner of a network of thirty regional newspapers.
Works
- (1941) Random Rhymes, Perth, the author. a review of his own work - {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article257555068 |title=Reviewer's Corner. |newspaper=North-eastern Courier |volume=18 |issue=970 |location=Western Australia |date=9 January 1942 |accessdate=11 June 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- (1941) The man from Marble Bar [poem].First line: Satan sat by the fires of hell. in Random rhymes, 1941, p. 16 - reprinted in Grono, William (ed) (1988) Margins : a West Coast selection of poetry, 1829-1988 page 200. - {{Citation | author1=Grono, William, 1934- | title=Margins : a west coast selection of poetry, 1829-1988 | publication-date=1988 | publisher=Fremantle Arts Centre Press | isbn=978-0-949206-37-4}} see the review - {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122260210 |title=Poetry anthologies from the West |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=63 |issue=19,568 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=6 May 1989 |accessdate=12 June 2023 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- (1946) Parlez vous [poem]. (first line) 'The reelers are at dinner tonight'.
- (1948) Cold is the Marble{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248918771 |title=A Time To Think |newspaper=The Herald |issue=22,433 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=16 April 1949 |accessdate=11 June 2023 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{Citation | author1=Courtney, Victor | title=Cold is the marble | publication-date=1948 | publisher=Jindyworobak | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18972903 | access-date=11 June 2023}}
- (1956) All I May Tell{{Citation | author1=Courtney, Victor | title=All I may tell : a journalist's story | publication-date=1956 | publisher=Shakespeare Head Press | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21385059 | access-date=11 June 2023}}
- (1961) The Life Story of J. J. Simons{{Citation | author1=Courtney, Victor | author2=Young Australia League | title=The life story of J.J. Simons : founder of the Young Australia League | publication-date=1961 | publisher=Young Australia League Inc | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16513653 | access-date=11 June 2023}}
- (1962) Perth—and All This!{{Citation | author1=Courtney, Victor | title=Perth -- and all this! : a story about a city | publication-date=1962 | publisher=s.n.] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18762222 | access-date=11 June 2023}}
Reference
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Further reading
- Davidson, Ron, (1994) High jinks at the hot pool : Mirror reflects the life of a city Fremantle, W.A. Fremantle Arts Centre Press. {{ISBN|1-86368-090-X}} (pbk.) former title was The Mirror.
External links
- [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130570b.htm Courtney's Australian Dictionary of Biography entry.] - print version at — Victor Courtney — biography of journalist. Australian dictionary of biography, Vol. 13, p. 514.
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