Alfred Burdett Mellor CBE (2 November 1915 – 7 April 2011) was a stockbroker and financier who was the Chairman of the Melbourne Stock Exchange between 1960 and 1966.
[1][2] Mellor was born in Canterbury where according to an interview in 2004, he had a privileged upbringing, where he lived in various stately homes that his grandparents owned.
[4] However, during the war years, he served in the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) as a Lieutenant and field-gunner in the New Guinea Campaign until he was decommissioned in 1946.
[2] After this period of service, Mellor continued his pre-war career and immediately founded his own stockbroking firm.
[1] For his work in the financial sector, Mellor was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s 1966 Birthday Honours List.