Harry Tancred

Businessman

Tancred's great-grandfather was a butcher. His grandfather Peter established himself as a wholesale butcher in Kent Street, Sydney in 1844 before travelling to the US to further his prospects. Peter's son Thomas, Henry's father, branched out in 1869 and started a wholesale and retail meat business on Glebe Island in Sydney before taking the family to New Zealand. In the 1920s Henry and his six brothers returned to Sydney. Under Henry's leadership, they established the Tancred Brothers meat business which by 1956 was the listed company, Tancred Bros Industries Limited, one of Australia's largest wholesale butchering firms. He owned the champion New Zealand bred stallion High Caste. In 2007 Tancred was inducted into the Sydney Turf Club Hall of Fame as an associate.