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Ivor Hele Bill Hayward

oil

91.5 x 61 cm

Image courtesy St John's Ambulance Museum, Unley

This portrait by Ivor Hele of businessman and philanthropist Edward Waterfield (Bill) Hayward (1903-1983) – on of three by Hele of Hayward exhibited in the Archibald – is now in the collection of the St John’s Ambulance Museum, Unley.

Hayward joined the South Australian Centre of the St John Ambulance Association committee in 1947 and served as inaugural chairman of the St John Council for South Australia from 1950 to 1976, and then as president.