Marie Beuzeville Byles pictorial material, 1970-1979

PXE 1623

fonds

1970-1979

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs

1128266

1 folder of pictorial and textual material (2 photographs and 1 book) - black and white - printed text ;

Marie Beuzeville Byles (1900-1979), solicitor and conservationist, was born in Cheshire, England. In 1912 the family arrived in Sydney. Marie Byles was educated at Prebyterian Ladies Colleges at Pymble and Croydon and the University of Sydney, where she graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1921 and Bachelor of Laws in 1924. Admitted as a solicitor in 1924 Byles was the first woman to be admitted in New South Wales. She established a legal practice at Eastwood in 1929, retiring from the practice in 1970. As a conservationist and bush walker she was involved in the successful campaign to establish Bouddi National Park. Byles lived for many years at 'Ahimsa' a cottage built in bushland at Cheltenham. She published a number of books including By cargo boat & mountain (1931), Footprints of Gautama the Buddha: being the story of portions of his ministerial life (1957), Journey into Burmese silence (1962), and The lotus and the spinning wheel: a comparison of the teachings of Buddha and of Ghandi (1963). Marie Byles died at 'Ahimsa' in November 1979.

1. Photographic portrait of Marie Byles, ca 1970s.

2. Graham Harrison scattering Marie Byles' ashes into her garden 'Ahisma', Cheltenham, N.S.W. Photo by Patty Todhunter 12 April 1980.

3. Bookplate of Marie Byles inside a volume of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf.

Copyright status:: In copyright - photographs created after 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Marie Beuzeville Byles