Karl Derrick LOFTON-BROOK
Born 3 July 1910 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India [553]
Departed Calcutta, India on the Naringa and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 6 April 1928 [63]
Initially worked as a cleaner at a restaurant in Perth [P7]
By 1930 he had settled in Carnamah where he was working as a Labourer [4] [19] for "Tony" Edgar H. BENTLEY [P7]
Member of the Inering Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 22-Nov-1930]
Member of the Inering Tennis Club in 1932 [5: 2-Sep-1932, 30-Sep-1932]
Won the High Jump at the "Gimlets" Annual Picnic on 18 September 1932 at Richard BATTY's farm in Carnamah [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Attended the Surprise 21st Birthday for George AUNGER in Carnamah on Sunday 2 October 1932 [5: 7-Oct-1932]
Member of the East Carnamah Cricket Club in 1932-33 [5: 28-Oct-1932]
Member of the Winchester Tennis Club in 1934-35 [5: 2-Nov-1934]
Member of the Winchester Cricket Club in 1934-35 and 1935-36 [5: 7-Dec-1934, 25-Oct-1935]
After the BENTLEY family purchased a farm of their own in Carnamah they couldn't afford to employ him [P7]
Farmhand for Cyril RAYNER on Minawaha Farm in Carnamah for about 12 months [P7]
He and Cyril RAYNER travelled from Carnamah to Perth by train on Thursday 7 February 1935 [5: 8-Feb-1935]
71 years later his former employer Cyril RAYNER described him as Anglo Indian and as a "tall thin chap" [P7]
Travelled from Carnamah to Perth on Thursday 6 February 1936 [5: 7-Feb-1936]
Played for the Carnamah District Cricket Association at Country Week Cricket in Perth during February 1936 [5: 14-Feb-1936]
Farmhand for Kenneth J. SIVYER on the Inering Estate in Carnamah in 1937 [50]
On leaving Carnamah he shifted back to Perth and worked as a cleaner in the same restaurant he had formerly worked at [P7]
In 1939 he was a student in the Perth hills suburb of Carmel and in 1943 was a clergyman in Hamilton, New South Wales [50]
He became a naturalised citizen of New Zealand at the age of 67 on 22 December 1977 [553]
Died 25 July 1990 in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia [554: 22-Sep-1990]
From The Record, the official paper of the Seventh-day Adventist Church South Pacific Division, 22 September 1990:
Noticeboard - Life Sketches
"Lofton-Brook, Pastor Karl Derrick, was born of British parents in Allahabad, India, on July 3, 1910; and died on July 25 in the Murwillumbah Hospital, NSW. Following his father's death in World War I, Karl was sponsored by the Church of England to migrate to Western Australia, in 1928. While travelling on a Perth tram, Karl met some Adventists who introduced him to Pastor Gordon Wilson. After joining the Adventist Church, Karl studied for two years at Cannel College and then for a similar period at Avondale College, where he graduated from the ministerial course in 1941. Following a year in literature evangelism in the Kempsey district of New South Wales, Karl became publishing director of the Queensland Conference. In 1944 he married Helen Beckett. When their first child was four months old, they responded to a call to
mission service in Fiji. Because of Karl's fluency in the Hindustani language, he worked for the Indians in Fiji. Another son was born in Fiji. After 12 years they moved to New Zealand, where Karl pastored churches in Auckland, Gisbome, Tokoroa, Te Aroha and Thames before retiring in 1975. He and his wife returned to Australia in 1983 and lived at the Adventist Retirement Village, Kings Langley, NSW. He is survived by his wife; sons Oliver (and wife, Tasma) of Canada, and Kenneth (and wife, Dale) of New Zealand; and four grandchildren. Pastor Ross Goldstone assisted at the funeral service in the Avondale cemetery."
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Karl Derrick Lofton-Brook' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 21 February 2026 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/karl-derrick-lofton-brook [reference list] |
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