Rex Ingamells

Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells (19 January 191330 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.