A talented artist, May Harding was a member of the Field Naturalists' Society and taught at the Broken Hill Technical College. She devoted years of her life to helping the sick and needy in Broken Hill.
May Harding was the daughter of Florence May Boyle and Frederick Joseph Harding, a foreman and moulder by trade. She had two siblings, Doris and Frederick, both born in Broken Hill. Early in life May developed a passion for the natural world and began collecting and identifying plants. She learnt to draw the various species of flora around her home, and became an accomplished artist.
During World War Two, May held art classes for local children each Saturday and she taught at the Broken Hill Technical College. She was a founding member of the Willyama Art Society and a member of the Field Naturalists' Society for 45 years. In 1965 she was selected to open the Festival of Australian Wild Flowers in Canberra.
May Harding spent much of her time caring for those in need and was awarded the M.B.E. for a lifetime of service. A section of the Broken Hill Art Gallery was named in her honour and a Field Naturalists' flower show was dedicated to her after her death in 1971. A portrait of May Harding by C.G. Samuels of Coolabah, South Australia, was presented to the Broken Hill Historical Society and hangs in the museum at the old Silverton Gaol.
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(Florence) May Harding, 1908-1971, teacher of art and botany, photographer, botanist, and artist, who was born, worked and died in Broken Hill, NSW.
(Florence) May Harding was known as May Harding, presumably to distinguish her from her mother, also Florence May Harding. May Harding was born in 1908 at Silverton (near Broken Hill, NSW), daughter of Frederick Joseph Harding (a foundry foreman; died 1956 in Broken Hill), and Florence May Boyle (born about 1890 in Glenelg, South Australia; died 1935 in Broken Hill). May lived in a house at 59 Williams Street, Broken Hill, with her father until he died, and with cats. ...
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William Allwood Rae and Florence Julia Johnson were married on the 7th of November 1871 William was the son of John Rae of Sydney and Florence had come by ship from Valparaisio Chili

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