Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Yaralla

Estate of noted philanthropist Thomas Walker and his heir Eadith Walker, at Concord.

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Walker, Eadith

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2010

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

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2011

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

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2011

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.