George Cross Thomas Orr b. 1882

Also known as G. C. T. Orr
  • Artist (Painter)
Part-time painter and manufacturers' agent working in Sydney c.1910-1933
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Amateur watercolour painter and manufacturers’ agent. George Cross Thomas Orr was born in the Sydney suburb of Waterloo in 1882, the son of Thomas W. Orr, a Surry Hills bootmaker, and his wife Maria (née Turner). G. C. T. Orr married Annie V. Plunkett in Petersham in 1906 and died in the Chatswood district in 1933.

A number of paintings by Orr, done in the greater Sydney region during the 1920s, are in private collections in Australia and Europe.

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Writers:
Riddler, Eric
Stephen Robertson Marshall
Date written:
2005
Last updated:
2016