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Peacock, Millie Gertrude (1870-1948)

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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-718097

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Australian Women's Register

Lady Millie Peacock was the first woman member elected to the Victorian Parliament and the third woman elected to Parliament in Australia. On 1 January 1901 she married Victorian Parliamentarian Alexander Peacock (knighted 1902). Lady Peacock was the first President of the Creswick branch of the Australian Red Cross Society. She was a member of the Provisional Committee of the Victorian Division of the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society (1914-1915). She then became a member of the Victorian Divisional Committee until 1934 and was a member of the Victorian General Committee until 1938. Following the death of her husband in 1933 Lady Peacock stood for and won her late husband’s Legislative Assembly seat of Allandale. During her time in Parliament she made only one speech. She retired from Parliament in 1935.

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  • Australian Red Cross Victoria (1914 - )

    Member of the Provisional Committee, Victorian Division of the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society 1914-1915, Victorian Divisional Committee c1915-1934 and the Victorian General Committee c 1934-1938

Resources for Millie Gertrude Peacock

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Lady Millie Peacock
    Parliament of Victoria
    Published: Parliament of Victoria
  2. Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2008]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
  3. No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics
    Jenkins, Cathy
    [2008]
    Published: Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne
  4. Who's who in Australia 1944
    Alexander, Joseph A
    [1944]
    Published: The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne
  5. Ivy Lavinia Weber, Victorian M.L.A, 1937-1943, [manuscript]
    [manuscript : 1979]
    Written by Ivy Weber's grand-daughter Vicki Davies in 1979. Also included are press cuttings relating to Lady Peacock, M.L.A.
    0.15 m
    State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
    MS 11017

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  3. Website: Putting skirts on the sacred benches : women candidates for the New South Wales Parliament
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