Richard F. Challis
Richard Frederick Challis was born on April the 7th 1924 in
Stafordshire, England, the 5th child of 10. His father was a master
painter, and his efforts to feed his large family during the great
depression of the 1930's is the basis of the novel "The Old Firm".
Richard was apprenticed at 15 and gradually rose to become the area
sales manager for his company for the North of England. This is told in
Richard's business autobiography "Time and Chance"
Richard migrated to Australia in 1964 and was his company's regional
Manager for the Far East and Oceania. His international travels are
related in the novel "When Angels Travel".
After leaving his company, Richard became a lecturer at the Elton Mayo
School of Management (Now part of the University of South Australia)
specialising in international marketing.
Steve Challis
Steve is the author of the fish fact sheets on this web site. He was born in 1951 in Aldridge in England, and migrated to Australia in
1964. He was a research technician at the Waite Agricultural Research
institute of the University of Adelaide for 17 years. After that, Steve and Cora founded an aquarium and animal feed shop called Betta Trading
in the Adelaide Hills town of Littlehampton, and have now run it for
over 20 years.
He has written a science fiction Quadrilogy. The First book of this
Quadrilogy is called "A Bad Boy".
