Diana Ogilvie Sumner Grice

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Diana Grice was born on 9th December, 1924, to Claude and Henrietta Grice.

She was a loved granddaughter of James and Annie Grice, of “Moondah”, Mount Eliza.

Diana as a child, had her portrait painted by Violet Teague, to be included in the famous five panel mural that Violet painted in St. James the Less Church, Mount Eliza.

Called “Adoration of Angels, of Shepherds, of Kings” the painting took two years to complete and all thirty six of the life-size figures represented, lived in the district.

Diana helped her father Claude run their property at Somerville, and also worked at Toorak College as a teacher in Domestic Sciences.

Sadly, on the way to school in August 1965, she was killed at a railway crossing, when her car was hit by a train.

Her name is perpetuated at Toorak College with the Diana Grice Prize for Visual Arts being awarded annually.

Photos courtesy of Margaret Grice