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Sir Justin Hickey JP (5 April 1920 – 21 August 2005) was an Australian businessman, insurance executive and philanthropist. Hickey was born in a working class suburb of Sydney, where he attended De La Salle College. He reportedly left school at the age of 14 to work in a factory, later making a fortune by founding Accident Insurance, which became Australia's largest privately owned insurer.〔(''Burke's Peerage'' profile (access restricted) )〕 He and his wife, Lady Barbara Hickey, owned the "Lady Barbara", a 35m superyacht built in 1983, now known as "Emerald Lady". Their home was a Bartinon mansion standing on 2325sqm of land, once Queensland's most expensive home, located on Marseille Court in the exclusive Sorrento area of Australia's (Gold Coast ). It was built for about $8 million in the 1980s and sold in 1998.〔()〕 Hickey, a sailor and raconteur who staunchly supported the Australian National Party, told an ABC Four Corners program in 1982 that he was knighted after giving $100,000 towards the construction of a senior citizens' hospice in Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen's electorate. Hickey replied to a question regarding the confluence of the contribution and the knighthood by saying ''"I paid the hundred thousand before I received the knighthood."''〔(www.investmentadvisor.com )〕 His father Simon Hickey was a New South Wales Labor politician whose 8-day term as the Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in December 1921 is the shortest in the history of that chamber. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Justin Hickey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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