Walter Randolph Carpenter

Sir Walter Randolph Carpenter
Born(1877-10-31)31 October 1877
Died1 February 1954(1954-02-01) (aged 76)
NationalityAustralian, Canadian
Known forEntrepreneur, businessman

Sir Walter Randolph Carpenter (1877–1954) was an Australian-Canadian pearl hunting, trader, merchant, ship owner, airline industry leader and philanthropist of American ancestry active in the western Pacific from the 1890s through the 1940s.[1]

  1. ^ Nelson, H. N. (1979). "Carpenter, Sir Walter Randolph (1877–1954)". The Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 7. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 12 December 2011.