Baron Casey of Berwick and Westminister and the Lady Casey at Edrington [Edington?], Wiltshire, United Kingdom [picture]

Minister of a number of federal departments from 1933 to 1940. During the Second World War held a number of senior wartime posts before becoming Governor of Bengal from 1944 to 1946. Re-elected to the House of Representatives in 1949 and was Minister of various government departments until 1960 when he received a life peerage as Baron Casey of Berwick. He became Governor-General of Australia from 1965 to 1969.

Ethel Marian Sumner (Maie) Ryan was born on 13 March 1892 in Melbourne. She married Richard Gardiner Casey in 1926. Lady Casey was a painter, illustrator and patron of the arts. She took up flying while living in Canberra in 1938 and flew in Australia and the United States. She was awarded the Kaiser-I-Hind Medal, the Africa Star, and the Amelia Earhart Medal and was made a Commander of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 1982. She died on 20 January 1983.