The Wedgwood Museum

Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood was an anthropologist and lecturer. She studied anthropology at Cambridge and at the London School of Economics before moving to Australia in 1928 to take up a position with the Department of Anthropology at Sydney University. She was the first woman in that department, and one of only three women lecturers at the university. She undertook pioneering anthropological research in Papua New Guinea. She was a supporter of the European Refugee Programme and championed the education of men and women in developing countries. Not without contradictions, she was a pacifist who became a lieutenant-colonel in the Australian Women's Army Service and a Quaker who subsequently became a staunch Anglican.

'Forthright, unconventional and completely fearless' was one student's view of Camilla, adding that she was also one of the first truly emancipated women that she had ever encountered.