LUDOWICI, FREDERICK JOHN (1873-1969), businessman and conservationist, was born on 27 November 1873 at Willoughby, Sydney, eighth child of John Charles Ludowici, a tanner from Prussia, and his London-born wife Elizabeth, née Fay. Educated at Sydney Grammar School, Frederick began work at the age of 16 as an apprentice in his father's firm, J. C. Ludowici & Son Ltd, 'Mill Belt Manufacturers, Tanners, Curriers and Importers'. In 1891 he became its secretary on a salary of £13 per month. At St Philip's Anglican Church, Sydney, on 30 April 1902 he married Annie Maria Yates. Ludowici was appointed a director of the company in 1905 and general manager in 1914. Tall, fair haired and unaffected, he had a lively interest in the leather business and allied fields, and a genuine concern for people. Before World War I he went 'stagecoaching out West to find . . . the uses and abuses of belting ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography