Maie casey biography channel

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At fourteen she went to boarding school in England, and she later attended the Westminster School of Art. She married Richard Casey in London in In the early s they settled in Canberra, living at Duntroon and then in a house designed for them in the suburb of Yarralumla. She accompanied Casey on his postings to Washington, Cairo and Calcutta, where, as vicereine, she became first President of the Indian Institute of Art in Industry in From , she was Lady Casey; she and Casey regularly flew themselves between engagements, and she continued to fly into her 80s.

Maie casey biography channel: Biographical Note. Ethel Marian Sumner

In , with the appointment of Casey as governor-general, she moved into Government House, to which she brought many artists and writers. Her own books, several of them autobiographical, include An Australian Story, , Tides and Eddies Melba Re-visited and Rare Encounters as well as two volumes of verse and a musical libretto. Maie Casey is shown here at the controls of the Miles Messenger which Casey purchased in England in