Jack Ellerton Becker
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Jack Ellerton Becker
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Sir Jack Ellerton Becker FAA, was a South Australian entrepreneur. In the 1920s and 1930s, he capitalised on the developing craze for music making his first fortune when he sold his highly successful Adelaide College of Music in 1942. In the 1940s and 1950s, land speculation in the Ninety Mile Desert and the area that became Elizabeth yielded two further fortunes. Becker contracted to give £200,000 to the Australian Academy of Science over ten years when it was having financial problems in the e
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Australian entrepreneur
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