Hugh Cheyne

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Hugh Macartney Cheyne was born in Heyfield to Macartney and Ellen (Shorten) Cheyne in 1880.
He married Lily Rodwell in 1907.

Hugh was a compositor who had been working at Nagambie, when he joined a newspaper in Mornington, called The Mornington Peninsula Post - the first paper printed in Mornington. Its first issue was produced in the last week of August, 1913.

Fred Grantley, the owner, came out of retirement to take over The Post in 1914. He had previously been a printer and newspaper owner at Numurkah and Birchip, and it is most likely that Hugh Cheyne and Fred Grantley knew each other.

Hugh was to stay on the staff of the Post for the rest of his working life.

In 1919, Hugh, who had been a bandsman in Korumburra, called a meeting of former Mornington bandsmen in The Post printing room. All agreed that a town needed a band, so they decided to establish one.

Although pressured to be the bandmaster, Hugh declined the offer, and they played on without one. Hugh’s son, Leslie Macartney Cheyne, later became part owner of the Peninsula Post.

The Cheynes built new premises at 97 Main Street, Mornington, in 1949, to house the publication of the paper.

Hugh was living in 10 Waterloo Place at the time of his death in 1957, aged 77 years.