Gladys Penfold Hyland

Gladys Penfold Hyland CBE born Gladys Lethbridge (17 March 1886 – 11 July 1974) was an Australian businesswoman and collector of antiques. She led Penfolds Wines from 1948 to public ownership in 1961. During her time Penfold's finest wine Grange Hermitage was developed.

Life Hyland was born in 1886 in Albury in New South Wales. She was the first daughter of Ada Margaret Dawson and George Henry Lethbridge. Her parents were both born in Australia and her father was a sheriff's officer. She had a brief private education and she married Frank Astor Penfold Hyland in 1921. Gainsborough, George Romney J. M. W. Turner and Salomon van Ruysdael. They amassed a large quantity of antique silver objects and early porcelain figures made in England.

In 1937 she joined the Australian Red Cross Society and from 1941 to 1947 she presided over the arrangements for Red Cross Day and during that time her committee raised two million pounds. A 1951 bottle of wine from her time in charge at Penfold's sold for over $100,000 Australian dollars in 2020.