Charles Kerry - Later Life

Later Life

He employed professional photographers and after 1895 took fewer photographs himself. He left the firm in 1911 to concentrate on his mining interests.

From 1913 he made a photographic tour of the Pacific, visiting Tonga, New Caledonia, Fiji, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Samoa. Later, in 1928 he accompanied a scientific party to the islands of the Great Barrier Reef. He died soon after his return at his home in the Northern Sydney suburb of Neutral Bay.

In 1937 Sir Frank Packer named his son after Kerry. Kerry Packer became Australia's richest man.

Kerry's son G. E. Marni Kerry was an early Australian aviator and friend of Charles Kingsford Smith.

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