Anthony Crichton-Brown: Aussie ag investor dies from coronavirus in UK
Anthony Crichton-Brown, a prominent investor in Australian agriculture, has died in the UK from complications associated with coronavirus.
A PROMINENT investor in Australian agriculture has died overseas from complications associated with coronavirus.
Australian-born, UK-based Anthony (Ant) Crichton-Brown, whose Coolong Pastoral business owns several rural properties in NSW, “passed in London this week from COVID-19 complications” at the age of 77, according to the Sydney-based Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, of which he was a member.
A death notice in The Age today paid tribute to Mr Crichton-Brown as a “much respected international businessman/investor, pastoralist, celebrated yachtsman, polo player et al” who was “tragically lost to us by COVID-19 in the UK”.
The son of former Rothwells International chairman and Liberal Party of Australia treasurer Sir Robert Crichton-Brown, Mr Crichton-Brown attended Geelong Grammar School, the University of Sydney and Harvard University Business School.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he was the executive chairman of Lumley Insurance Group from 1965 to 2003.
Coolong Pastoral’s rural property profile includes the 34,000ha Toronga Station near Hay in the NSW western Riverina, purchased in 2010, the 388ha Merrilla property near Goulburn, bought in 2015 for more than $6 million, and the 16,200ha Natue Station at Booligal, purchased in 2016.
Mr Crichton-Brown owned the showpiece 2722ha Deltroit Station near Adelong for more than 20 years before selling it to the Australian Pastoral Group in 2013 for about $15 million.
He also formerly owned the 878ha Humula Station, east of Wagga Wagga.
The CYCA in a statement said as the son of Sir Robert, a former club commodore, “Anthony spent much of his life sailing with his father and in some famous campaigns”.
He was part of a crew that won the 1967 Admiral’s Cup international yachting regatta off southern England.
It was the first time an Australian crew had ever won the prestigious but since-abandoned competition.
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