MOSS, ALICE FRANCES MABEL (MAY) (1869-1948), campaigner for women's rights, was
born on 27 April 1869 at Ballarat, Victoria, daughter of English-born John Alfred
Wilson, sharebroker and later licensed victualler, and his Scottish wife Martha
Brown, née Lamb. She was educated at Presbyterian Ladies' College, East Melbourne,
and on 10 March 1887 married in Melbourne in a civil ceremony, Isidore Henry Moss,
grazier (d.1938), son of Mark Moss, financier. They lived in New South Wales for
some thirteen years.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Over the course of her life Alice Moss worked with a number of women's organisations, as well as various education, child welfare and Red Cross societies. Educated at Presbyterian Ladies College, Melbourne, she married I H Moss in 1887 (deceased 1938) and they had two daughters. In 1914 she relinquished her position as vice-president of the Australian Women's National League to become the only female member of the Victorian recruiting committee for the Armed Services. Later she became the only woman member of the Victorian Centenary Celebrations executive committee (1933-1934). At the same time she was president of the Women's Centenary Council of Victoria as well as being the first president of the National Council of Women (1931-1936). On 4 June 1934 she was appointed Commander of the British Empire.
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10 March 1887
Married I H Moss
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1906
Member of the Board of Management City Newsboys' Society
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1927
Alternate Delegate to the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva
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1927
Member of the Executive for the League of Nations Union in Paris
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1927
Australian delegate to the first Women's Peace Study Conference in Amsterdam
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1927
Australian delegate to the first World Population Conference in Geneva
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1927
Accredited delegate to the Conference of International Council of Women in Geneva
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1928
Vice-President of the League of Nations Union of Victoria
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1928 - 1938
President of the National Council of Woman of Victoria
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1930
Victorian delegate to the Congress of the International Council of Women in Vienna
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1930
Accredited delegate for the Conference on Nationality of Married Women at The Hague
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1931 - 1936
1st President of the National Council of Women of Australia
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1933 - 1934
Member of the Victorian Centenary Celebrations Council and Executive Committee
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1933 - 1934
President of the Women's Centenary Council of Victoria
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1936 - 1945
Appointed by the Commonwealth Government as a Lay Member to the National Health and Medical Research Council
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Australian Women's Register
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