Thomas Williamson

Born in Ballarat in 1901, Hugh Dean Thomas Williamson was a bank manager who rose to the position of chief executive officer of ANZ Bank, a position he held from 1954 until his retirement in 1961.During his working life he maintained a keen interest in the stock market.This was to provide him with significant personal wealth and following his death, in 1986, was to form the financial basis of the Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation.

Williamson's involvement with the NGV began in the early 1960s when he was appointed treasurer of the Arts Centre Building Committee which oversaw the building of the NGV and the Arts Centre complex.In 1985, shortly before his death, Williamson met with the then Director, Patrick McCaughey, to discuss supporting the NGV in other ways, including the establishment of an acquisition program.

Hugh Dean Thomas Williamson was born in Ballarat on 4 February 1901.At the age of sixteen he commenced work as a teller with the Ballarat Banking Company.A year later he transferred to the Bank of Australasia, Ballarat branch, beginning a forty-four year association during which he worked his way to the most senior position of General Manager.

Hugh Dean Thomas Williamson was born in Ballarat on 4 February 1901.