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'Lost' portraits join Vice-Chancellor display

The Hon Sir Herbert Angas Parsons, Vice-Chancellor 1942-1945. The image was sourced from The Advertiser
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide's early Vice-Chancellors will for the first time have their portraits displayed along with the more contemporary Vice-Chancellors in the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s heritage-listed .

A lucky find of original historic photographs of four Vice-Chancellors from the 1800s behind a compactus has enabled them to take their place on the Mitchell Building walls. Reproduced images of the last two missing Vice-Chancellors, sourced from the The Advertiser and have completed the line-up.

Since the 1950s, Vice-Chancellor portraits have been exhibited in the central stairway of the Mitchell Building. Before then, only those Vice-Chancellors that went on to become Chancellors had their portraits commissioned, and displayed in .

"For many years the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s early Vice-Chancellors were unrepresented among this visual history," says Mirna Heruc, Manager of the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s Art and Heritage Collections.

"This exhibition and associated research will add significantly to our understanding of the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s early years."

The new permanent display will be unveiled at a special celebration at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ this afternoon at 4pm in the Mitchell Building.

The new portraits are of: The Reverend Professor William Roby Fletcher, Vice-Chancellor from 1883-1887 (the third Vice-Chancellor); The Venerable George Henry Farr 1887-1893; John Anderson Hartley 1893-1896; Dr William Barlow 1896-1915; The Honourable Sir Herbert Angas Parsons 1942-1945; and Professor John McKellar Stewart 1945-1948.

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide's first two Vice-Chancellors, The Right Reverend Augustus Short 1874-1876 and The Right Honourable Sir Samuel James Way 1876-1883, went on to become Chancellors and are represented in Bonython Hall with other Chancellors.

What: Cultural Celebration - Reintroducing the first Vice-Chancellors
When: 4pm-6pm, Wednesday 25 June
Where: Edgeloe Room, upstairs in the Mitchell Building, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide
Cost: Free, all welcome

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