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Patricia Horsley

Patricia (Trish) Horsley (16 July 1930 - 28 January 2021) was an Australian architect and a feminist Catholic philanthropist. She was significant supporter and advocate for women's education and the arts.

Education
Horsley attended Kincoppal-Rose Bay, School of the Sacred Heart until 1947. She was resident at Sancta Sophia College from 1948 until 1953. Horsley graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney in 1954.

Philanthropy
Horsley was a member of the Sancta Sophia College Council for 41 years (1964 to 2005). During her time on the Council, she advised on various College building projects, made valuable contributions to the management of the College’s library, archives and artefacts, and facilitated several significant art exhibitions. The most notable being was “The Broad Canvas, Art in Australia 1770 – 1967”, held in 1967, which featured over 180 pieces by more than 100 artists from Charles Condor to Arthur Boyd.

The ‘Patricia Horsley Postgraduate Leadership Scholarship’ which was established as a result of Horsley’s generous donations to Sancta Sophia College enables access for postgraduate students to attend the college.

In 1970 and 1976 Horsley was part of the international Kincoppal-Rose Bay alumnae delegation that gave reports to the General Chapter of the RSCJ in Rome.

In 1983, Horsley became president of the Kincoppal-Rose Bay Chapel Society and initiated the project to restore the chapel’s stained-glass windows and stalls, and the restoration of the 1890 Puget organ. She regained for the school the oak altar and reredos that came with Reverend Mother Vercruysse, the Belgian whose family was opposed to her becoming a nun and who felt called to Australia, in 1882. Mother Vercruysse’s family donated the items to the school.

Leadership
Horsley was World President of Association mondiale des anciennes du Sacre Coeur AMASC (World Association of Alumnae of the Sacred Heart) from 1974 – 1978.

Horsley was a long-term member and benefactor of WATAC (Women and the Australian Church). At one point Horsley, donated a cow, ‘Miriam, and her offspring’, to provide funding into the future.