Ray Rosbrook

Ray Norman Rosbrook (1910 – 5.9.1979) was an Australian basketball coach who was instrumental in the establishment of the game in New South Wales.

[2] Always known as Golly he attended Newington in the last years of the headmastership of the Rev Dr Charles Prescott.

[4] In 1963 he escorted Queen Elizabeth II on an informal tour of the Moore Park playground.

[7][8] Rosbrook held administrative and development positions with the National Fitness Camp, Narrabeen, the YMCA Camp at Yarramundi, as a founder of the New South Wales Amateur Basketball Association, Amateur Athletics Association and the Drummoyne Rugby Union Club.

He died in Sydney on 5 September 1979 and his ashes are at Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens, North Ryde.