John Shorter Pty Ltd

[2] The family and business were, through two generations, major donors to the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences in Sydney.

[7][8] He married his New South Wales-born[1] wife Emily Jane Shorter, née Butler, in 1883.

[11] He worked for the family company and became a trustee of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences in Sydney.

The Powerhouse Museum has her work in its collection and the National Gallery of Australia hold her designs in pen-and-ink.

[14] A slip cast, bone china Royal Doulton figurine, HN322 Digger (Australian), was modeled on him by Ernest W.

[15] The standing figure is of Austin dressed in military uniform, with the rising sun insignia on his slouch hat.

[18][19] From 1905 the Shorter family resided at Harborne a substantial stone home built in 1858 in Boundary Street, Parramatta.

The Powerhouse Museum has one of the finest collections of Doulton in the world due to donations from Shorter family.