OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 21096, 30 May 1930, Page 7

OBITUARY

MR GEORGE WASHINGTON LAMBERT.

PROMINENT AUSTRALIAN ARTIST.

(United Press • Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 12.50 a.m.) Sydney, May 29. The death occurred suddenly of George Washington Lambert, A.R.A., a most distinguished Australian artist.

Mr G. W. Lambert, who was a painter of portraits and mural decorations, was born in Russia, in 1873, his father being an- American and his mother an English woman. He studied art under Julian Rossie Ashton in Sydney, and won a travelling scholarship in 1900, studying for two years in Paris. He was a member of the International Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers; founder of the Modern Society of Portrait Painters; Associate of Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts; and official artist to the Australian Imperial Forces in Egypt and Palestine. COMMODORE WILLIAM MARSHALL. London, May 28. The death is announced of the White Star Company’s Commodore, William Marshall, at the age of 57. Commodore William Marshall, D. 5.0., was appointed to command in the White Star Line in 1911, to which he was apprenticed in 1891. He served as third officer on a transport in the South African War. He underwent a course in gunnery and torpedo work in 1902-3, and afterwards served for twelve months as lieutenant in H.M.S. Collingwood. He commanded several of the White Star steamers, and on the outbreak of the Great War was in command of the Afric, outward bound to Australia, which was taken over as a transport on her arrival and returned under convoy with the first contingent of Australian troops. He was appointed commodore of the Royal Navy Reserve in 1927.