Jennings, he left Melbourne Grammar School to join his father's firm in 1947, and worked in several areas of the organisation.
In the late 1950s he became mostly involved in the Housing Division in Melbourne, but also encouraged the company to branch out into real estate and furnishings.
[1] After time spent in Queensland as the owner operator of the Mount Surprise Cattle station, he returned to Victoria and established a Brahman stud at Moorooduc.
[2] He was expelled from the party in 1979 for his criticism of the government's handling of a land purchase scandal,[1] and was defeated at the next election.
[3] An active sportsman in his youth, and always keen on maintaining his physical fitness, he ignored the signs of over-exertion and died of coronary heart disease on 9 April 1987, in the sauna of the gymnasium at Parliament House, Brisbane.