Sarah Chinnery

Mrs Sarah Chinnery
Born	1887
Died	1970
Residence	Kokoda, Meryl Street, Malvern, Melbourne
Society Membership membership Local Correspondent left 1921.11.15 elected_AI 1919.05.20

Notes

House Notes

1919.05.20 Mrs Chinnery. On the motion of Dr Seligman, seconded by Mr Ray, it was resolved to appoint Mrs E.W. Pearson Chinnery as a Local Correspondent for New Guinea.
1921.11.15 The following names to be removed from the list of Local Correspondents: Mr J. Barley, Mrs Bates & Mrs Chinnery

Notes From Elsewhere

Sarah Johnston Chinnery née Neill (1887-1970) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1900 she moved to Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to keep house for her older brothers. One of the brothers gave her a camera and she became an enthusiastic and talented photographer. She joined three camera clubs and later, having acquired a motorbike, she toured the countryside, capturing landscapes and interiors in different lights. She qualified as a dentist and carried on her brother’s practice in Aylesbury. She married Pearson Chinnery in 1919. When they travelled to Australia in the following year, she took with her a Sinclair Una quarter-plate camera and a Thornton Pickard horizontal enlarger, which she used all her life. Sarah Chinnery began keeping a diary in Port Moresby in 1921 and continued the practice intermittently until she left Rabaul at the end of 1937. Several of her illustrated articles on life in New Guinea were published in newspapers in New Guinea, Australia and the United States.

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National Library of Australia - photos, diaries, etc.