Eleanor Mary Hinder, 1971 / drawn by Frank Hinder

P3/240

fonds

1971

Graphic Materials, Drawings

887596

1 drawing - 48.8 x 35.5 cm - pencil on paper, colour

Eleanor M. Hinder (1893-1963), a welfare officer and international public servant who worked in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s and for the United Nations, was born at East Maitland, N.S.W., the third daughter of Robert John Hinder (1856-1918), headmaster, and his wife Sarah Florence, née Mills. Her father was the brother of Henry Vincent Critchley Hinder (1865-1913).

The artist Frank Hinder (1906-1992) was born in 1906, the son of H.V.C. Hinder. Eleanor M. Hinder and Frank Hinder were cousins.

References:
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/
(accessed 12 February 2010)
A Biographical register 1788-1939 : notes from the name index of the Australian dictionary of biography / compiled and edited by H.J. Gibbney and Ann G. Smith. Canberra : Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1987.
Who's who in Australia (27th edition, 1991). Melbourne : Information Australia, 1990.

Portrait of Eleanor M. Hinder in profile.

Copyright status:: In copyright [Life of artist plus 70 years]

Identified as Elenor [Eleanor] Hinder (letter held on Library Correspondence File)

Signed "FCH.71" at lower right. Inscription below portrait "E.M.H., 1971, (v 3)"