Charles Herbert Currey portrait photograph and wedding photograph

PXA 7587

fonds

approximately 1916

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9669488

2 photographic prints - mount 20 x 25 cm or smaller - on card mount

Charles Herbert Currey (1890-1970), educationist and legal historian, was born in 1890 at Ulmarra, New South Wales. He completed a Bachelor of Arts at Sydney University in 1912 and an MA in 1914. Currey married Linda Wise on 10 January 1916. Although admitted to the Bar in 1922, he did not practise law but continued his work and research in the teaching of history and civics. He was President of the Teachers’ Federation, fellow and President of the Royal Australian Historical Society and a part-time lecturer at Sydney University Law School in English and Australian legal and constitutional history. Currey died on 2 March 1970. He willed half his residuary estate to the Public [State] Library of New South Wales, which endowed the Library's annual CH Currey memorial fellowship ‘for the writing of Australian history from original sources, making use of the resources of the State Library of New South Wales’.

Reference:
Bennett, J.M. 'Currey, Charles Herbert (1890–1970)', Australian Dictionary of Biography. Accessed 10 May 2023.
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/currey-charles-herbert-9883/text17491

The photographs were owned by the donor's mother, Ailsa Stacy. Ailsa's mother Vera Currey was the sister of Charles Currey.

1. Photographic portrait of Charles Herbert Currey, approximately 1916
2. Wedding photograph of Charles Herbert Currey, his wife Linda, and members of the wedding party, 10 January 1916

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Photographer(s) unknown.