Peter Rowsthorn (businessman)
Peter Rowsthorn Snr is an Australian businessman. He is the former chairman of Toll Holdings, Australia's largest transport company. He and Paul Little bought the company in 1986. He is now the owner of Wadham Park and Woodside, a horse training facility and a stud farm respectively.
His elder son, Mark Rowsthorn, was chairman of Toll NZ and an executive director of Toll Holdings and, in 2008, was CEO of Asciano Limited. His younger son, Peter Rowsthorn, is an actor and comedian. He also has two daughters, Sue, who resides in Newlands Arm on the Gippsland Lakes, and Jennifer, who lives in central Melbourne.
