Sidney kidman biography

Sidney Kidman and his Corner Country Connections

Sidney Kidman was the second youngest of George and Elizabeth Mary Kidman’s six sons. He was born in at Kapunda in South Australia, the year before his father died.

In Sid’s mother remarried, but it was an unhappy arrangement and one by one Sid’s older brothers left their home near Adelaide. Sid earned some money working in stockyards and at the age of 13 bought a horse and headed north.

He found his older brother George on Poolamacca Station in the Barrier Ranges of New South Wales. George was not happy to see Sid and ordered him to go home. Sid’s refusal to go was the start of a life of hard work and enterprise that earned him the title of Cattle King.

After investing in businesses such as droving, buying and selling horses, coaching, mining and butchering, Sidney Kidman purchased his first property, Cowarie on the Birdsville Track in South Australia, in He subsequently went on to own more many properties across S

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Sidney Kidman

Australian pastoralist and entrepreneur

Sidney Kidman
Portrait of Sir Sidney Kidman in
Born	Sidney Herbert Kidman 9 May 'Glen Stuart', Fifth Creek near Adelaide, South Australia
Died	2 September &#;() (aged&#;78) Millswood, South Australia, Australia
Resting place	Mitcham Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation	Landowner
Spouse	Isabel Brown Wright (–)
Children	Annie Gertrude Kidman (–) Elma Thomson Kidman (–) Edna Gwendoline Kidman (–) Edith Kidman (–) Norman Sidney Palethorpe Kidman (–) Walter Sidney Palethorpe Kidman (–)
Parent(s)	George Kidman Elizabeth Mary (Nunn) Kidman

Sir Sidney Kidman (9 May &#;&#; 2 September ), known as Sid Kidman and popularly named "the Cattle King", was an Australian pastoralist and entrepreneur who owned or co-owned large areas of land in Australia in his lifetime.

Early life

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Sidney Kidman was born on 9 May in Adelaide, in the colony of South Austra

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Sidney Kidman

From a humble background as a stockman, Sidney Kidman () went on to own, control, or have a financial interest in more pastoral land than anyone else in modern history. He was known in Australia and throughout the world as "The Cattle King."

When Australia had few railways and fewer telegraphs and when there was no such thing as wireless, motor frakt, or airplanes, Sidney Kidman started to build and steadily added to two big chains of stations that stretched almost the length and breadth of Australia. With the aid of his phenomenal memory and his intensive knowledge of the geography of the bush, plus a small army of dedicated men, Kidman controlled the movement of great herds of boskap hundreds of miles apart and sent stock from his semi-arid lands in an evenly flowing stream to markets. Kidman used more than stations covering more than , square miles of country (an area larger than the state of California).

Kidman was born on May 9, , in Adelaide, South Au