Tony grew up in Sydney, studied at UTS and spent 20 years working in the oil industry around Australia and in the Pacific Islands. After this, he owned and operated an arts and crafts retail business with multiple stores around Melbourne.
In his early school years Tony developed a passion for history and dreamed of becoming an archaeologist in later life. He started dabbling in genealogy putting form and detail into lots of loose family history facts (some of which turned out to be fiction). He took the surfeit of people, places and dates in his bulging database and wrote a book about the seventeen immigration events that brought all his ancestors to Australia between 1788 and 1880. This provided Tony with the opportunity to hopefully inspire his children and grandchildren towards an interest in history by seeing some of it through ancestral eyes.
He became “Keeper of the Purse” at GSV in 2022 and now contemplates his next publishing task that will draw together the twin interests of ancestry and history.
