# 46796
[MENZIES, Robert Gordon, Sir, 1894-1978]
Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for British Prime Minister Harold Wilson
$2,400.00 AUD
Gelatin silver print, 270 x 220 mm; inscribed, signed and dated on the mount ‘for Harold Wilson, with warm regards Robert Menzies / 1965’; fine condition, presented in a silver frame, housed in a custom blue velvet-lined case.
Sir Robert Menzies (1894-1978) served two terms as Prime Minister of Australia, the first from 1939 to 1941 as leader of the United Australia Party, and the second from 1949 to 1966 as the inaugural leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. He is the longest-serving prime minister in Australian history.
Like his Australian counterpart – although on the opposite side of the political fence – Sir Harold Wilson (Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, 1916-1995) served two terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as head of the Labour Party, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976.
Provenance:
Hansons Auctioneers, Stafford (UK), 10 May 2019. A Prime Minister’s Life : The Harold and Mary Wilson Collection, lot 352; private collection, Australia.
