Alex Melrose

Alexander Melrose (16 ga Mayu 1865 - 2 ga Satumba 1944) lauya ne na Kudancin Australia wanda aka sani da goyon bayansa ga zane-zane.

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Alexander dan makiyayi ne George Melrose (1806-1894) da matarsa Euphemia née Thomson (c. 1829-1887), wanda ya isa Kudancin Australia daga Scotland a Palmyra a 1839, wanda ya kafa dukiyar "Rosebank" a Dutsen Pleasant.

An haifi Alex a Ostiraliya kuma ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Prince Alfred, kuma ya yi karatun shari'a a Jami'ar Adelaide. An shigar da shi a matsayin lauya da lauya a 1886, kuma ya yi aikinsa a matsayin abokin tarayya tare da Robert Homburg sannan dansa Hermann Homburg a matsayin Homburg & Melrose, Adelaide. har zuwa jim kadan kafin mutuwarsa.

Ya kasance marubuci mai basira, yana ba da gudummawa da yawa ga The Bulletin. Ya rubuta wasannin kwaikwayo da yawa, waɗanda gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Repertory ya samar, kuma a cikin 1934 ya buga Song da Slapstick,  tarin ayoyi. Ya kafa kyautar Melrose don adabi. An samar da wasan kwaikwayonsa na 1917 The Adventures of an Adventuress  a Adelaide kuma an farfado da shi a Melbourne bayan 'yan shekaru.

Ya kasance masanin fasaha mai kyau kuma memba na Kwamitin Litattafan, wanda ke gudanar da Gidan Fasaha. A cikin 1928 kwamitin ya ba shi izini don tafiya zuwa Burtaniya kuma ya sayi zane-zane uku don cika gibin da ke cikin tarin gallery. A shekara ta 1934 ya ba da £ 10,000 don tsawaitawa ga Art Gallery na Kudancin Australia,[1] kuma ya ba da Kyautar Melrose don hoto, wanda Kungiyar Fasaha ta Kudancin Australia ke gudanarwa. Ya ba da kyautar tarin kansa mai daraja ga Gallery.

Ya kasance memba na Hukumar Botanic Garden, ya kasance shugaban Royal Institution for the Blind daga 1930 kuma mataimakin shugaban kungiyar Pioneers daga 1937.

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