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  • Journalist (from age 15!)
    • Pen names of South Australian journalists and cartoonists, SA Memory, www.samemory.sa.gov.au
      Tarquin - WB Carr (1861-). Began work at the Register in April 1876 as a hansard reporter. He became sporting editor using the name 'Tarquin,' from 1893, following the resignation of 'Trumpator' (W. Moxom Cook).
  • Involvement with the S.P.C.A.
    • Return of the horse, 26 June 1931, Advertiser and Register, pg.1
      The following officers were elected: — ... trustees, Messrs. W. B. Carr and ...
    • http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/sa/sport/racing.htm
      Biographical details of W.B. Carr and John Barker are in the Observer, 26 July 1924, page 24d (obit. 30 May 1925, pages 17a-35b-37c)
      Biographical details of John Barker and W.B. Carr are in the Register, 17 July 1924, page 9d</ref>