Blaxland, Helen Frances (1907-)

Also known as
Anderson, Helen Francis (1907-1989)
Blaxland, Helen Frances, (Dame) (1907-1989)
Field of activity
charity worker; flower arranger; heritage conservationist; Red Cross worker
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BLAXLAND, Dame HELEN FRANCES (1907-1989), conservationist, was born on 21 June 1907 at Neutral Bay, Sydney, sixth of seven children of (Sir) Robert Anderson, a Sydney-born businessman, and his wife Jean Cairns, née Amos, from Melbourne. Helen was educated at Bedales School, Hampshire, England; Frensham, Mittagong, New South Wales; and Julian Ashton’s Sydney Art School. On 8 November 1927 she married with Presbyterian forms Gregory Hamilton Blaxland (1896-1969), an engineer, at her parents’ home in New South Head Road, Double Bay. They lived first at Bellevue Hill, then at Woollahra in a nineteenth-century house, Brush (named after Gregory Blaxland’s farm). Significant patrons of mainly Sydney artists, they collected works by (Sir) Russell Drysdale, Donald Friend, (Sir) William Dobell, Loudon Sainthill, Elaine Haxton, Paul Jones and others. The Blaxlands’ only child, Antonia, was born in 1929.

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Helen Blaxland spent much of her life working for charitable institutions, particularly the Australian Red Cross Society, for which she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1967. Her other interests included flower arrangement, on which she published two books. She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1975 for service to the community in recognition of her contribution to the National Trust (New South Wales) and the Parramatta Properties Committee.

Helen Blaxland was the daughter of the late Brigadier General Sir R M McCheyne Anderson. She was educated at Bedales in England and later at Frensham in Mittagong, New South Wales. She married Gregory Blaxland on 10 November 1927, and had one daughter, Antonia, who became a photographer.

She worked in several charitable organisations, including the Australian Red Cross Society. She was appointed OBE in 1967 for her contribution to the Society and awarded the Order of the Red Cross Society in the same year. She was foundation chairman of the Women's Committee of the National Trust (New South Wales), the Lindesay Committee and the Parramatta Properties Committee, which was concerned with the restoration of Experiment Farm Cottage and Old Government House, Paramatta.

She published two books on flower arrangement, entitled Flower pieces (1946) and Collected Flower pieces: on the arrangement of flowers (1949), for which her daughter Antonia took the photos.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Blaxland, Dame Helen Frances, DBEWho's who in Australia 1988 Keith A Cadman 123 : Blaxland, Dame Helen Frances, DBE
    [1988]
  2. Collected flower pieces: on the arrangement of flowers
    Blaxland, Helen
    [1949]
    Published: Ure Smith
  3. Flower pieces
    Blaxland, Helen
    [1946]
    Published: Ure Smith
  4. Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html

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