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Skehan, Patricia

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Patricia Skehan is a local historian at Concord Heritage Society, Sydney

Walker, Eadith as Author
Walker, Thomas as Author
Yaralla estate as Author

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Walker, Eadith

Born into a privileged life of travel and culture, Eadith Walker became one of Sydney's foremost philanthropists and patrons of the arts.

Walker, Thomas

A businessman, pastoralist and philanthropist, Thomas Walker used the fortune he'd made in the colony to endow hospitals, establish cultural institutions and support the poor.

Yaralla estate

One of Sydney's grandest estates, and a centre of high society into the 1920s, Yaralla was the home of Thomas and Eadith Walker, noted philanthropists.