Gresley Lukin
Gresley Lukin was an Australian public servant, newspaper owner, company manager and newspaper editor, most prominently the partproprietor of the Brisbane Newspaper Company from November 1873 to December 1880, then and still the leading journal in Queensland under the name the The CourierMail.
Lukin was born at Launceston, Tasmania onNovember 1840, son of the brewer George Lukin and his wife Mary Anne, ne Wilkins, and he died at Wellington, New Zealand onSeptember 1916. Lukin followed his elder brother George Lionel Lukin to Queensland in 1865, where he came to work as a clerk and public servant. He became chief clerk of the Queensland Supreme Court in 1871 but resigned in November 1873 after purchasing a third share in the Brisbane Newspaper company. Although Lukin took on the position as editorinchief of the Courier, he was in fact working as the journals managing editor, only occasionally being engaged in the practical editing and writing. The old Irish radical, William Augustine OCarroll, was the de facto daily editor of the Courier during Lukins entire period as managing editor. Yet Lukin was instrumental in consolidating the companys assets, the Brisbane Courier and its weekly the Queenslander, following a period of great and devastating turmoil in this journal
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