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Australian businessman, winemaker and yachtsman

Robert Ian OatleyAO, BEM (11 June – 10 January ) was an Australian businessman, winemaker, yachtsman and philanthropist. He was perhaps best known for owning the nine-time Sydney-Hobart-winning yacht Wild Oats XI.

He bought Hamilton Island, Queensland in for $&#;million, he also owned retirement homes and a villa in Sardinia, Italy. Oatley also established the Rosemount winery, in the Hunter Valley in

Biography

Robert Oatley was born in the Sydney suburb of Mosman in , the son of Geoffrey Oatley and Isabel "Jean" née Brown.^[1] Oatley was a great, great grandson of British clock maker James Oatley.^[2] and a great grandson of James Oatley,^{[citation needed]} Lord Mayor of Sydney and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales.

Oatley's mother, Jean, died from melanoma 13 months after his birth, leaving him as an only child.^{[citation needed]} Oatley's f Bob Oatley - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia HORIN