Rex Ingamells

Rex Ingamells
BornReginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells
(1913-01-19)19 January 1913
Orroroo, South Australia, Australia
Died30 December 1955(1955-12-30) (aged 42)
Dimboola, Victoria, Australia
OccupationPoet
NationalityAustralian
Period1935–1955
Literary movementJindyworobak Movement

Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells (19 January 1913 – 30 December 1955) was an Australian poet, generally credited with being the leading light of the Jindyworobak Movement.[1]

Rex Ingamells was born in Orroroo, South Australia to a Methodist minister, and attended Port Lincoln High School, where he became interested in poetry. He later attended Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide.[2] After a trip at the turn of the thirties, Ingamells became fascinated with Indigenous Australian culture, and became inspired to found the Jindyworobaks a few years later.

In 1935, his first book Gum Tops was published. He died near Dimboola, Victoria in a car-crash in 1955.

  1. ^ Ingamells, Reginald Charles (Rex) (1913–1955) (Australian Dictionary of Biography) Accessed: 29 January 2007.
  2. ^ "Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells". State Library of South Australia. 19 January 1913. Retrieved 26 September 2019.