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The Hon. Dame Roma Mitchell AC DBE CVO QC
Biography
The Hon. Dame Roma Mitchell AC DBE CVO QC (1913–2000) was the first Australian woman to be a Queen's Counsel, Supreme Court judge, Acting Chief Justice, Deputy University Chancellor, Chancellor and State Governor.
2 portraits in the collection
Roma Mitchell
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1978
Portrait of Dame Roma Mitchell, 1940s
Geoffrey Mainwaring
Portrait, pastel on paper
Gift of friends of Dame Roma Mitchell 2018
Dame Roma Mitchell, 1998
Jessica Hromas
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Hammond Care Group 1999
Judicial portraits
Magazine article by Leslie Moran, 2007
Leslie Moran investigates the portraits of judges in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
Alan Mitchell
Biography
Alan Mitchell is based in Melbourne and specialises in room set photography.
4 portraits in the collection
Tony Mitchell
Biography
Tony Mitchell was in a band called Wheelbarrow, who released a single, 'Dame Zara' before Mitchell left to join Harry Young and Sabbath.
3 portraits in the collection
Harold Mitchell AC
Biography
Harold Mitchell AC (1942-2024), businessman and philanthropist, left his home town of Stawell at seventeen to become an office boy in a Melbourne advertising agency.
1 portrait in the collection
Alex Mitchell
Biography
Alexander George Mitchell (1911-1997), academic, studied English literature and language at the University of Sydney and the University of London before joining the English department of the University of Sydney, where he assumed the McCaughey Chair of Early English Literature and Language in 1947.
1 portrait in the collection
David Mitchell
Biography
David Mitchell (1829-1916), builder, contractor and businessman, arrived in Melbourne in mid-1852 in the Anna.
1 portrait in the collection
Second thoughts, 2008
by Brad Mitchell
Image
David Mitchell, 1903 (later reworked)
Ada Whiting
Portrait, watercolour on ivory
Gift of the Mitchell Family 2012
Andrew Mitchell Ramsay
Biography
Andrew Mitchell Ramsay (1809-1869), clergyman, was Melbourne's first Presbyterian minister.
1 portrait in the collection
Lindy Lee - Birth and Death, 2006
by Robert Scott-Mitchell
Image
Harold Mitchell, 2001 (printed 2011)
Lorrie Graham
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Tony Mitchell, 1975 (printed 2001)
Lewis Morley
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program