A. J. Roberts

[1] He was educated at the Norwood Grammar School and Wesley College, Melbourne, and gained employment first with G. Wood, Son & Co., and then the Bank of Adelaide.

During the war he remained a member of the Stock Exchange, but handed the work to his accountant, Cyril Walter Larkins, devoting his energies to patriotic activities, for which he received an OBE.

He was appointed to the boards of several firms: South British Insurance Co., Timms Reinforced Timber Co., Adelaide Cement Co., and Cowell Bros (timber and hardware merchants in Sydenham Rd, Norwood, founded by Henry James and James William Cowell in 1884, purchased in 1905 by Quinton Stow Smith, Roberts and Francis Henry Cowell) He served as chairman of Millers Lime Ltd. and managing director of Tyrone Farming Co., Loxton Roberts was captain of the Norwood Football Club in 1886 and largely instrumental in reforming the Association in 1888.

In 1914 he accompanied the Davis Cup team to London as honorary manager, and a month later returned to Australia by the Lusitania, which was subsequently torpedoed.

[8] He was president of the Glenelg Golf Club 1927–1929[9] Roberts married Isabel Joyce (c. 1866 – 16 April 1946).