Eadith Campbell Walker
Dame Eadith Campbell Walker (18 September 1861 - 8 October 1937) was an Australian heiress and philanthropist. Life and career Eadith Campbell Walker was born at The Rocks, Sydney, the only child of Scottish parents, Thomas Walker (philanthropist), Thomas Walker, a merchant, and his wife Jane (née Hart). The family moved to their home, Yaralla, an Italianate mansion on the Parramatta River in Concord West, New South Wales, Concord West, an Inner West (Sydney), inner-western suburb of Sydney. Following the death of her mother, she was raised by her paternal aunt, Joanna Walker. She and her father carried out numerous charitable works in Australia. When the World War I, First World War came she took a special interest in returned soldiers suffering from tuberculosis, and had 32 of them at "The Camp" in the grounds of Yaralla Estate from 1917 to 1920. From April 1917 to December 1922 she lent another home at Leura for the same purpose, and paid the entire cost of maintenance. It ...
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