Rex Ingamells
Rex Ingamells | |
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| Born | Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells 19 January 1913 Orroroo, South Australia, Australia |
| Died | 30 December 1955 (aged 42) Dimboola, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Period | 1935–1955 |
| Literary movement | Jindyworobak Movement |
Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells (19 January 1913 – 30 December 1955) was an Australian poet, generally credited with being the leading light of the Jindyworobak Movement.
Rex Ingamells was born in Orroroo, South Australia to a Methodist minister, and attended Port Lincoln High School, where he became interested in poetry. He later attended Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide. After a trip at the turn of the thirties, Ingamells became fascinated with Indigenous Australian culture, and became inspired to found the Jindyworobaks a few years later.
In 1935, his first book Gum Tops was published. He died near Dimboola, Victoria in a car-crash in 1955.