US to further his prospects. Thomas Tancred, Arnold's father, branched out in 1869, starting a wholesale and retail meat business on Glebe Island in Sydney before taking the family to New Zealand. In the 1920s Arnold and some of his older brothers returned to Sydney. Under the leadership of Henry Eugene Tancred (1897-1961), they established the Tancred Bros meat business which by 1956 was the listed company, Tancred Bros Industries Ltd one of Australia's largest wholesale butchering firms. Arnold succeeded his elder brother Henry as Chairman and Managing Director of the business in 1959, and from 1961-63 was a member of the Meat Board, the national producer-owned company that regulates promotes the meat industry in Australia. Arnold Tancred was a pioneer in the export of Australian beef to the US, where his father had been born. His single term as President of the New South Wales Rugby Union was in 1959. He was active in the thoroughbred industry, owning and racing horses. References Footnotes Published sources Collection (1995) Gordon Bray presents The Spirit of Rugby, Harper Collins Publishers Sydney (essay specific to this article Phil Tressider's The Class of '47–48 1st published Sydney's Daily Telegraph, 1987) Shehadie, Sir Nicholas (2003) A Life Worth Living, Simon & Schuster Australia Online Arnold Tancred at scrum.com ADB entry HE Tancred with details on AJ Tancred 1904 births 1963 deaths Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Australian Roman Catholics Australian people of Irish descent New Zealand businesspeople Rugby union players from Sydney People educated at St. Patrick's College, Wellington 20th-century Australian businesspeople Rugby union flankers