Rex Ingamells

Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells (19 January 1913 — 30 December 1955) was an Australian poet, generally credited with being the leading light of the Jindyworobak Movement.

Life
Rex Ingamells was born in Orroroo to a Methodist minister, and attended Port Lincoln High School, where he became addicted to poetry. He later attended 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 won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1950.

He died near Dimboola, Victoria in a car-crash in 1955.