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Lionel Kenneth Osborn Shave, OBE (Mil) (1916–2009), was an Australian soldier, businessman, benefactor and patron of the arts. He served with distinction during the Second World War in Tobruk and Palestine, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was present at the surrender of the Japanese First Army in the Pacific in 1945. He received the Military OBE for his services in Intelligence. Shave's career encompassed whaling, mining and advertising. He had a lifelong interest in the theatre, becoming chairman of The Old Tote Theatre Company. He was a patron of the arts, a friend to many well-known Australian painters and councillor of The Arts Council of New South Wales.〔Tony Stevens, Obituary, SMH, (2009)〕 ==Early life== Lionel Kenneth Osborn Shave was born in 1916, the eldest child and only son of Lionel Charles Horace Shave and Doris Minnie Helena (née Long) in Mentone, Victoria, Australia. Shave had four sisters, Valerie, Helen, Penelope and Diana, of whom Helen died in infancy. At the age of five years Shave suffered osteomyelitis of the bone of his right arm. Rather than the usual procedure of amptutation, Shave's surgeon, Frank Kingsley Norris, employing revolutionary surgical techniques, removed sections of the bones of the lower arm leaving Shave's right arm shorter and weaker, but with the hand functional. Shave went on to play cricket and later to gain a gunners certificate. Shave was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and later at The Scots College, Sydney, where the family moved when Shave was about fourteen. He took a prize for Divinity but failed Geography by drawing a caricature of the Geography master on his exam paper. Shave's father, Lionel Shave, was a journalist, playwright and a founder of Australia's oldest advertising agency, originally Griffin, Shave and Russell, later George Patterson. The family members all had a love of the theatre and performed in a number of stage productions. Shave's grandfather, Charles Osborn Shave, was Melbourne's leading couturier and it was anticipated that Kenneth would follow the family business. Returning to Melbourne, Shave discovered that he disliked ladies' tailoring.〔 His grandfather was also interested in drilling for oil and Shave followed this interest. Together they drilled at Glenelg, Lakes Entrance and at Taranaki in New Zealand. His interest in the theatre led him to become a founding member of the National Theatre Movement of Victoria, where he was to meet his future wife, Phyllis Knight.〔 As well as being involved in theatre management and stage production, he played a number of roles, including the dashing Robert Browning in ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street''. 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「Kenneth Shave」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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