Leeson, Ida Emily (1885-1964)

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Librarian; army officer; bibliographer; librarian
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LEESON, IDA EMILY (1885-1964), librarian, was born on 11 February 1885 at Leichhardt, Sydney, daughter of Thomas Leeson, carpenter from Canada, and his native-born wife Mary Ann, née Emberson. Ida's schooling began at Leichhardt Public School and, after the award of a bursary, she attended Sydney Girls' High School in 1898-1902. She won a scholarship to the University of Sydney and graduated B.A. in 1906 with second-class honours in history, then worked briefly as a teacher in private schools at Bowral and Potts Point.

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Ida Emily Leeson (1885-1964) was born at Leichhardt, Sydney, the daughter of Thomas Leeson, a carpenter from Canada, and his Australian born wife Mary Ann, née Emberson. Leeson was educated at Leichhardt Public School and Sydney Girl's High School. She graduated with a Batchelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1906. In August that year she was appointed library assistant at the Public Library of New South Wales, and in 1909 was transferred to the Mitchell Library. In 1932 she was appointed second Mitchell Librarian. In April 1944 Lieutenant Colonel A.A. Conlan secured Ida Leeson's secondment as a research officer in the Directorate of Research, where she was ranked captain, and later major in the Australian Military Forces. She was a member of A.A. Conlan's 'think-tank' which included John Kerr. Leeson did not return to the Mitchell Library, officially resigning in 1946. Toward the end of the war she was appointed librarian-archivist for the School of Civil Affairs, later known as the Australian School of Pacific Administration. In 1949 she went to Noumea to establish the library for the South Pacific Commission, returning to Australia the following year, where she continued to work for the commission in Sydney until 1956.

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  1. Ida Leeson: a life: not a blue-stocking lady
    Martin, Sylvia
    [2006]
    Published: Allen & Unwin
  2. Leeson, Ida Emily (1885-1964)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : Leeson, Ida Emily (1885-1964)
    Berzins, Baiba
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100055b.htm
  3. Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales: Ros Bowden - interviews with people who knew Ida Leeson, former Mitchell Librarian, 1985 (1985)
    Collection comprises - 5 cassettes - 4hrs 30mins. Interviews with: Arnot, Jean Fleming, 1903-1995 Conlon, T.J. (Telford James), 1941- Conlon, Wilma Dix, A. T. (Alexander Thomas), 1927- Gollan, Daphne Kerr, John, Sir, 1914-1991 Phelan, Nancy, 1913-
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