Whitmore Blake Carr (12 October 1861 – 26 August 1943), was a journalist, sportsman in South Australia and longtime chairman of the Adelaide Stock Exchange.
[6] On the resignation of W. Moxon Cook, ("Trumpator" in The Register) in 1892, to become "Terlinga" in The Australasian, Carr was invited back as part-time racing journalist and wrote as "Tarquin" from then to 1904.
He retired from The Register in May 1904, just prior to his marriage to Clara Jane Bonnin, and was succeeded by Hadrian Moody (pen-name "Mostyn"), for some years Carr's assistant.
chairman in 1924,[4] a position he held until 1940, when he declined to stand, but was reappointed to the committee every year thereafter, the last being just a few weeks before his death.
He was a member of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Mount Lofty Convalescent Home and the Glenelg Institute.