Portrait of the Hon. Thomas Walter White, D.F.C., V.D. [picture] / Spencer Shier
- Bib ID:
- 117544
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Shier, Spencer, 1884-1950
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1940
- 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; 15.2 x 11.6 cm.
- Biography/History:
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Pilot, politician, diplomat and writer. White served as Minister for Trade and Customs in the Lyons Cabinet (1933-38) and as Minister for Air and Civil Aviation in the Menzies Government (1949-51). He married Vera Deakin (youngest daughter of Alfred Deakin) in 1922, published the best-selling Guests of the unspeakable in 1928, and was Australian High Commissioner in London between 1951 and 1956.
- Notes:
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- Title from inscription on reverse.
- Condition: Good.
- Inscriptions: "Spencer Shier, Melbourne, 1940" --In pencil lower right corner. "White, Hon. thomas Walter, D.F.C., V.D."" --In pencil on reverse.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136730584
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Also Titled:
- Portrait of the Honourable Thomas Walter White
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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