Annie Forsyth Wyatt

Who was Annie Forsyth Wyatt?

Annie Forsyth Wyatt OBE was an Australian community worker, conservationist and Red Cross worker. She is celebrated as the driving force behind the establishment of the National Trust movement in Australia, establishing the organisation in 1945 to protect Sydney's historic natural and built sites.

As a conservationist, lover of colonial history, and humanitarian, Wyatt observed women working effectively in the community during World War I, and came to believe that women could make a difference in community issues. Over her lifetime she worked for many causes apart from the National Trust of Australia, including the Red Cross and the NSW Prisoners' Aid Association. She donated the proceeds of her book Doors that slam: a romance of early Sydney, to the Prisoners' Aid Association.