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Billy Slater
Biography
Billy Slater (b. 1983), rugby league footballer, has played for Melbourne Storm since the beginning of his career in 2003.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Billy Snedden KCMG
Biography
Sir Billy Snedden KCMG QC (1926-1987), politician, was elected as a federal member in 1955.
1 portrait in the collection
David Low
Biography
Sir David Low, caricaturist, published his first cartoon in the British comic Big Budget at the age of eleven, while resident in his native New Zealand.
4 portraits in the collection
William Lanne
Biography
William Lanne (1834-1869), also known as King Billy or William Laney, is said to have been Truganini's third partner.
3 portraits in the collection
Herbert Benjamin George Larkin CBE
Biography
Herbert Benjamin George Larkin CBE (c. 1871- 1944), shipping administrator, came to Australia from England and joined the office of the Australian Steam Navigation Company.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Lloyd Dumas
Biography
Sir Lloyd Dumas (1891-1973), journalist, began his career as a cadet for the Adelaide Advertiser.
1 portrait in the collection
Archbishop Daniel Mannix
Biography
Archbishop Daniel Mannix (1864-1963) was Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 to 1963.
1 portrait in the collection
First Australian first-class cricket team
Biography
The ‘first Australian first-class cricket team to tour England and North America’ was in fact the second Australian cricket side to contest matches internationally (a team of Indigenous players having done so in 1868), but it is considered the first official national representative team to tour overseas.
1 portrait in the collection
Kylie Kwong AM
Biography
Kylie Kwong was born into a fourth generation Australian Chinese family in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
William Morris Hughes
Biography
William Morris Hughes (1862-1952) was Labor and National Party Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923.
4 portraits in the collection
Sir William Dobell OBE
Biography
Sir William Dobell (1899–1970), painter, studied art and was apprentice to an architect in Sydney before leaving Australia for Europe in 1929.
10 portraits in the collection
Thomas Joseph Carr
Biography
Thomas Joseph Carr (1839–1917) was the second Catholic archbishop of Melbourne, the successor to James Alipius Goold.
2 portraits in the collection
Dr Sarah Engledow
Biography
Dr Sarah Engledow was appointed Historian at the National Portrait Gallery in 1999.
Gordon Powell AM KCSJ
Biography
Gordon Powell AM KCSJ (1911-2005) Presbyterian minister, broadcaster and writer, is regarded as one of the most influential Australian Presbyterians.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Ernest Fisk
Biography
Sir Ernest Fisk (1886-1965), radio pioneer and businessman, began his career as one of the earliest wireless telegraphists in the British Post Office.
2 portraits in the collection