Alfred Roy Le Messurier

Alfred Roy Le Messurier (19 February 1886 – 5 October 1946), generally known as Roy or A. Roy Le Messurier, was an Australian rules footballer and businessman in the exotic timber trade. The family name was often styled LeMessurier.

The eldest surviving son of Alfred Le Messurier, and Jane Sinclair Le Messurier, née Neill, Alfred Roy Le Messurier was born at Semaphore, South Australia on 19 February 1886.

He was educated at Semaphore Collegiate School and at St Peter's College.

He was a member of the Royal Adelaide and Mount Lofty Golf Clubs. Margaret was a daughter of William Henry Saunders (c. 1852 – 26 June 1928), town clerk of Port Adelaide and brother of A. T. Saunders.

They had three sons, and were living at 14 Martin Avenue, Fitzroy, in 1928 when his wife sought a review of the allowance he had settled on her and their children. Le Messurier and his wife toured Europe and America in 1929.

Their sons: (Alfred) Peter Le Messurier (born 1914), (Frederick) Lindsay Le Messurier (born 1915), and Richard Ward "Dick" Le Messurier (born 1918) were, for much of the 20th-century, South Australia's major importer and exporter of timber. They had a sizeable stake in Softwood Holdings and Timber Holdings for which, in 1987, they accepted a cash offer from CSR Limited.

Death Le Messurier died on 5 October 1946 at their home in Martin Avenue, Fitzroy, South Australia.