Gallery

Senate and its people: 1850 - 1930


1850s - 1890s

W C Wentworth
  • Above: The Hon William Charles Wentworth, Fellow of Senate 1850-72 and one of the original 16 Fellows of Senate appointed in 1850 (photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives). View his biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
The Rev William Binnington Boyce
  • Above: The Rev William Binnington Boyce, Fellow of Senate 1850-59 and one of the original 16 Fellows of Senate (photo G3_224_495, courtesy University of Sydney Archives). View his biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
The Rev Canon Robert Allwood
  • Above: The Rev Canon Robert Allwood (centre front), Fellow of Senate 1855-86 and Vice-Chancellor 1869-83, with Professors and third year students, 1881 (photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives).
Cecil Purser
  • Above: 1886 photo of medical students, owned by Cecil Purser (seated, far right), the first Deputy Chancellor from 1924 to 1925 (photo G_224_7, courtesy University of Sydney Archives).
The Hon Sir Arthur Renwick
  • Above: The Hon Sir Arthur Renwick, Vice-Chancellor 1889-91, 1900-02 and 1906-08 (photo G3_224_686, courtesy University of Sydney Archives).
Henry Chamberlaine Russell
His Honour Judge Alfred Paxton Backhouse

1900s - 1920s

Frank Leverrier
  • Above: Frank Leverrier, Vice-Chancellor 1914-17 and 1921-23 (photo, courtesy University of Sydney Archives).
Library Room
  • Above: The Library Room, Quadrangle, in the 1900s, before its conversion to the Senate Room (photo G3_224_1507, courtesy University of Sydney Archives).
Senate Room
  • Above: The Senate Room, Quadrangle, after its conversion from the Library, 1911 (photo G3_224_452, courtesy University of Sydney Archives).
John Bradfield
  • Above: John Job Crew Bradfield (Fellow of Senate 1913-43 and Deputy Chancellor 1942) 4th from right at head table at the fourteenth Annual Dinner of PNR School of Engineering, 5 August 1921 (photo G_224_1812, courtesy University of Sydney Archives). View close-up below.
John Bradfield
  • Above: Close-up of the previous photo - Fellow of Senate John Job Crew Bradfield is 4th from right (photo G_224_1812, courtesy University of Sydney Archives).
William Portus Cullen
  • Above: William Portus Cullen, Chancellor 1914-34, on the far left and Sir Mungo MacCallum, Vice-Chancellor 1924-28, on the far right, 1920s (photo, Hood Collection, Mitchell Pictures, State Library of NSW).
Arthur Edward Mills
  • Above: Arthur Edward Mills, Fellow of Senate 1920-25 and 1929-39 and Deputy Chancellor 1936-39 (photo G3_224_1775, courtesy University of Sydney Archives).