Peerless book launch and floor talk

Join Christopher Valttila author of 'Peerless' for a book launch and floor talk at Old Government House.

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Join Christopher Valttila author of 'Peerless' for a book launch and floor talk at Old Government House.

'Peerless' relates the history of the author's great grandfather and great grandmother Lord Henry Phipps and Lady Norma Phipps (nee Norma Leith Hay) from Lord Henry's arrival in Queensland as Aide de Camp to his father the 2nd Marquess of Normanby, a Governor of Queensland from 1871 to 1874 to his tragic suicide in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens in 1905.

Image credit: View of Governors Library from driveway 1885. Image Courtesy of National Library of Australia.

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