PLAYING THEIR PART: VICE-REGAL CONSORTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1788-2019 ILLUSTRATIONS FRONT COVER Row 1: Lady de Chair (p.143), Lady Young (p.77), Lady Hore-Ruthven (p.153), Elizabeth Macquarie (p.40), Elizabeth Bourke (p.56), Mary Caroline Stewart (p.68), Private Drawing Room (p.86) Row 2: Lady Loftus (p.94), Winifred Northcott (Private collection), Lady Denison (p.72), Government House (p.54), Lady Anderson (p.156), Anne Deas Thomson (p.58), Lady Mary Lygon (p.119) Row 3: Lady Cutler (Cutler collection, Government House, Sydney), Countess of Belmore (p.82), Eliza Darling (p.51), Lady Chelmsford (p.129), Linda Hurley (p.204), King family (p.30), Mary Putland (p.34) Row 4: Lady Strickland (Freeman & Co, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, ON219, no 352. FL11884216), Shirley Sinclair (p.190), Government House (p.63), Countess of Jersey (p.105), Lady Davidson (p.139), Elizabeth Bourke (p.57), Lady Martin (p.187) Row 5: Governor and Mrs Samuels (p.195), Lady Game (p.148), Sir Nicholas Shehadie (p.200), Elizabeth Northcott (p.168), Lady O’Connell (p.37), Lady Robinson (p.88), Lady Rawson and Florence Rawson (p.124), Lady Duff (p.109) Row 6: Lady Woodward (p.173), Viscountess Hampden (p.113), Lady Rowland (p.181), Private drawing room (p.85), Lord and Lady Wakehurst (p.xii), Lady Carrington (p.98), Elizabeth Bligh (p.35) Front inside cover: Government House Sydney, c.1892 (p.12) Back inside cover: Government House, Sydney, 2015. [By Maksym Kozlenko - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45440275] Opp title page Government House, entrance, view from porte cochère. Photographer Ondrej Koucky of Rapturous Media. Courtesy of Ondrej Koucky p.x Government House, eastern front, with [in foreground] ‘The Governor’s Wife’ rose, commissioned by Mrs Linda Hurley, bred by Richard and Ruth Walsh and planted in 2017. Photographer unknown. Government House, Sydney p.xii The Lord and Lady Wakehurst (1937-1946), photographer, Monte Luke, 1937. Timms collection, Government House, Sydney p.3 George W Lambert, The swearing in of Earl Beauchamp as Governor of New South Wales by Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Frederick Darley, 1899; on stairs, Lady Mary Lygon and Lady Darley. Pencil on thick card. Government House collection, GH 99/8. p.4 Sir Harry and Lady Rawson at Corowa, 1904. Australian Railway Historical Society, 018415b.jpg p.5 Viscount Hampden family group (photographer probably A J Perier) Mitchell Library State Library of NSW, PXA 2100/Box 15. See also formal photograph of Viscount Hampden and family ML PXA 2137/Box 39, no. 94, taken at the same time by A J Perier p.7 Garden Party at Government House, ca 1890s. Charles Kerry & Co, photographers, Dixson Library, SLNSW, DL PX163, no 19, Sydney Streets and buildings 1861-ca 1900, FL10329753 p.9 Dame Margaret Davidson with Diana and Daphne and Eleanor MacKinnon inspecting Junior Red Cross members at Government House, 22 November 1919. Australian Red Cross Society collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, PXD 1438/Box 1/no. 3. p.9 Lady Game inspects a group of Girl Guides at Government House in the 1930s. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Home and Away – 4855. FL1397094 p.9 Lady Wakehurst, Casualty Clearing Station, Jacquinot Airstrip, New Britain, 29 March 1945. Australian War Memorial, 018358 p.10 Government House, 1870, Charles Pickering (1825-1908), photographer. Photographs of Public and Other Buildings, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, PXD 524, no 122. FL1113632. p.11 Government House, eastern front, c.1870, Charles Pickering (1825-1908), photographer, Photographs of Public and Other Buildings, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, PXD 524, no 127. FL1113637. p.12 Government House Sydney, c.1892 (porte cochere, arcade, ballroom extension and The Chalet). NSW Government Printer, Photographs – NSW, 1879-ca 1892. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, PXD 855, no 9. FL1057535 p.14 Wedding party for marriage of Nora Augusta Maud, daughter of Sir Hercules and Lady Nea Robinson, to A.K. Finlay, Sydney, 7 August 1878. (Standing left to right: Unknown, Neredah Robinson, Alexander Finlay, unknown, Sir Hercules Robinson, Eleanor St John, ?Captain St John. Seated left to right: Nora Finlay, Neva St John, Lady Robinson. National Library of Australia, PIC/8288/1 LOC PIC Drawer B43, nla.obj-136820594 p.15 Aerial photograph of Government House and part of Circular Quay and Farm Cove, 1937. Photographer Capt Frank William Follett (1892-1950) of Adastra Airways. Royal Australian Historical Society Image Collection p.16 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh with Sir John Northcott and his daughter Elizabeth Northcott on the Arcade, Government House, February 1954, photographer unknown. Private collection p.18 William Bradley, View of the Governor’s House at Sydney, in Port Jackson, New South Wales, Jany 1791. Watercolour. National Library of Australia, PIC Drawer 2146 #R9867, nla.obj-134781285 p.21 The grave of Margaret Charlotte Phillip (1721-1792), Llanycil churchyard, Lake Bala. Photographer, W. Meredith, 1938. Society of Australian Genealogists , (original prints at SAG) p.26 View of part of the River of Sydney, in New South Wales, Taken from St Phillip’s Church Yard. Engraving. From Absalom West, Views in New South Wales, 1812-14, plate 18. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, SAFE/F81/22. FL3711430 p.30 Robert Dighton (1752-1814), Philip Gidley and Anna Josepha King, and their children Elizabeth, Anna Maria and Phillip Parker, watercolour, 1799. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, ML 1244. FL3199143 p.32 John Eyre (b.1771), First Government House, Sydney, c.1807. Watercolour. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, SV/31. FL4381731 p.34 Artist unknown (English School), Mary Putland (nee Bligh), portrait miniature, watercolour on ivory, c.1805, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, MIN 399. FL3199716 p.35 Elizabeth Bligh (1751-1812), portrait in oils, 1785, by John Webber (1751-1793). Private collection, Melbourne p.37 William Nicholas (1807-1854), Portrait of Lady O’Connell, oil on canvas, c.1847, National Library of Australia, call number PIC Screen 125#R11487; http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136435313 p.40 Elizabeth Macquarie, portrait miniature, artist unknown, watercolour on ivory, ca. 1819, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, MIN 237. FL3193364 p.47 Port Jackson. Vue de la Maison du Gouverneur à Parramatta. Engraving. Louis de Freycinet, Voyage autour du Monde, Paris, 1825, pl 95. National Library of Australia, PIC Volume 576 #S7314, nla.obj – 139637779 p.51 Mrs Darling 1825 by John Linnell, oil on wood, National Library of Australia, PIC Screen 12 #R9878, nla.obj-134769783 p.54 George Edwards Peacock, View of old Government House – Sydney – N.S.W. as it appeared when vacated by Sir George Gipps in 1845. Oil on board. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, ML 658. FL3204038. p.56 Elizabeth Bourke, 1800, in set of five Bourke family miniatures, all watercolour on ivory, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, P*112. FL566335. p.57 Portrait of Elizabeth Bourke. Richard Read jun, c.1832. Private collection, Sydney p.58 Anne Bourke Deas Thomson, William Bradley photographer, 1866-1869, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, P1/1752. FL3289627 p.63 Frederick Garling (1806-1875), Government House, Sydney, c.1845, Watercolour and gouache with underdrawing. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, ML 70. FL3170613 p.67 Lady Mary FitzRoy quilt, (National Trust of Australia (NSW) collection, Accession Number 3799, photographer Rebecca Pinchin p.68 Portrait of Mary Caroline Stewart by Richard Noble, 1855, Old Government House, Parramatta. National Trust of Australia (NSW), Accession Number 3642. p.72 Caroline, Lady Denison, carte de visite, Beattie Brothers/Beattie Print [18--?], Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, AUTA 1139593412, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office. p.77 Portrait of Lady Young, artist unknown, oil on paper, c.1867, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, ML P3/Turville. FL8808006 p.82 The Countess of Belmore, c 1867-1872, William Bradley photographer, Scott family collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, PXA 1023/Box 1, no 24. p.85 Thomas Woore, Government House, Sydney, View from private Drawing Room, watercolour, c. 1869. Private collection, Sydney p.86 Private Drawing Room, Government House, Sydney, c.1874, John Sharkey, photographer, NSW Government Printing Office, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, SPF/293. FL1230200 p.88 Lady Robinson, American & Australasian Photographic Company, c 1870-1875 Original photograph taken by Freeman, late Oswald Allen, Studio, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, ON 4 Box 29 No 10144. FL1252464 p.90 Drag, Government House, Sir Hercules Robinson, photographer unknown, NSW Government Printing Office, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, GPO1-05560, FL1766787 p.94 Lady Loftus, J Hubert Newman studio portraits, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, PXA 1035/Box 2, no 31 p.96 State Drawing Room, and partial view of Ante-Drawing Room, c.1887, Government Printing Office, NSW State Archives and Records Authority p.98 Lady Carrington, Freeman & Co photographers, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, PXA 1035/ Box 1, no 5 p.101 Lady Carrington and Judith Sydney Myee Carrington 2 months old, 27 September 1889, Kerry & Jones, photographers, Stephen Family album, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, PXA 1025/Box 1/ Folder labelled Album 3), no 9 p.102 Exhibition of Women’s Industries, Sydney 1888, medal, bronze, struck by W J Amor, Sydney.