Amelia Bunbury

Amelia Matilda Richardson Pries was born in Western Australia to Robert Ferdinand Pries (1821-1905), horse breeder{{cite web She spent her childhood at Prospect Villa in Busselton, which her father had purchased in 1860.{{cite web In 1897, Amelia married Mervyn Corry Richardson-Bunbury (1858-1910), and they moved to remote Williambury station, near Minilya in north-western Western Australia.{{cite web ==Photography and furniture carving==

After her move to Williambury, Amelia started to publish photographs in the Western Mail and other publications under the pseudonym Coyarre, including images of Indigenous people. She was featured in The Great North West and its Resources, published 1904. In 1905, her work was featured in the photographic booklet Busselton & District Illustrated, and she exhibited a set of picture postcards in the 1907 Exhibition of Women's Work in Melbourne. with a particular focus on depicting contemporary "station life," but also other topics in 1900, 1901, 1902, 1904, 1905, and 1906. Amelia's photography of Indigenous people has been criticised as being posed in the style "suggested by anthropological photographers of the day," that was created under "the instructions of the white woman in authority." In the first decade of the 1900s, Amelia studied woodcarving at the Perth Technical School, who decorated her home with her hand-carved furniture. ==Horse breeding and racing==

Amelia's father and husband were interested in horse breeding, and she herself rode horses until she was 83 years old. Mervyn Bunbury was a successful racehorse owner with The Brewer, that ran in the Ascot Vale Stakes, Amelia purchased Spinilly After the death of her husband, Amelia raced the sister horses Beaunilly and Beaufiler in the 1930s. while Beaufiler "won races and at the Perth Cup meeting ran second... in the Railway Stakes" and the Karrakatta Plate. and Beau Vasse who won the Perth cup. When her death was announced in 1956, Amelia Bunbury was described as "one of Australia's oldest racehorse owners," and the "'Grandma' of turf." ==Botanical collecting==

Amelia's family were keen botanical collectors. Her mother, father, and brothers Arthur Robert Pries (1850-1908) and Edward Adolphus Pries (1852-1916) corresponded with Ferdinand von Mueller and contributed to his botanical collection, that were incorporated into the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Her husband Mervyn may have also collected herbarium specimens for Mueller at Gascoyne River and Shark Bay.{{cite web ==Further reading==