Lady Rachel Dudley accompanied her husband, William Humble Ward, the 2nd Earl of Dudley, to Australia when he was appointed Governor-General of Australia in 1908. She helped establish an Australian District Nursing Scheme, and this autographed photo is dedicated to the NSW Bush Nursing Association. Lady Dudley was described by Australian journalist Ada Holman as ‘beautiful as a marble statue … a carved lily’. She returned to the United Kingdom and established the Australian Voluntary Hospital in London at the beginning of the First World War.