Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, opening a drug rehabilitation centre in Melbourne, May 2005

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE (born February 8, 1909), philanthropist, is the widow of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (784x1121, 162 KB)Photo taken by User:Adam Carr, May 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (784x1121, 162 KB)Photo taken by User:Adam Carr, May 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, wearing on her left shoulder the Order of Australias Sovereign Badge. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority... February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A media proprietor is a person who controls, either through personal ownership or a dominant position in a public company, a significant part of the mass media. ... Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch with Rupert Murdoch and one of his sisters in 1937, departing Melbourne by sea for Britain Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (August 12, 1886 - October 4, 1952) was an Australian journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Murdoch was born Elisabeth Joy Greene in Melbourne to an Irish Protestant father and an English mother. She was educated at St Catherine's School in Melbourne and at Clyde School. She married Keith Murdoch, 22 years her senior, in 1928, and inherited the bulk of his fortune when he died in 1952. When he was knighted, she became Lady Murdoch, and retained that title after his death, until she was appointed a Dame in her own right. Melbournes Yarra River is a popular area for walking, jogging, cycling, rowing and for relaxing on the banks with a picnic Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Badge and motto: Spectemur agendo. ... A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ...

Murdoch's parents were Rupert Greene, a Melbourne merchant, and Marie Grace de Lancey Forth of Warrnambool, Victoria. Apart from Rupert, her children are Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor and Helen Handbury (1929-2004). She has a large number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and as of 2004 at least one great-great-grandchild. (In a 2003 interview she said she had 64 descendants.) Her namesake granddaughter, Elisabeth Murdoch, is prominent in the British business world and is married to Matthew Freud. War memorial Warrnambool is a regional city of around 32,000 people on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia, located in the municipality City of Warrnambool. ... Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, opening a drug rehabilitation centre in Melbourne, May 2005 Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, AC, DBE, (born February 1909), philanthropist, is the widow of Australian media proprietor Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of United States-based media magnate Rupert Murdoch. ... Matthew Freud is head of Freud Communications Limited, and is a descendant of Sigmund Freud and relation of Lucien Freud and Clement Freud. ...

Apart from raising her children, Murdoch has devoted her life to philanthropy. Before her marriage she worked as a volunteer for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She joined the management committee of the Royal Children's Hospital in 1933, serving as its president from 1954 to 1965. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is a charity in England and Wales that promotes animal welfare (there is an identically named organisation in Canada). ... The Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne, Australia is the major specialist paediatric hospital for Victoria offering a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and adolescents. ...

A 2003 article in the Melbourne newspaper The Age (see link below) said: "Few can rival Dame Elisabeth's enormous contribution. Her interests are so many they need to be alphabetically catalogued: academia, the arts, children, flora and fauna, heritage, medical research, social welfare. Few of Melbourne and Australia's most cherished institutions, from the Royal Children's Hospital to the Australian Ballet and the Botanic Gardens, have not benefited from her involvement. But Dame Elisabeth also devoted herself to less popular causes: prisoners, children in care, those battling mental illness and substance abuse." The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. ...

Murdoch retains a substantial stake in the Murdoch family's media businesses, and uses the proceeds to fund her extensive donations to charity. She is said to have considerable influence with her son Rupert Murdoch, which she usually exercises in the direction of moderation. She is known to have disapproved of the behaviour of some of his British tabloid newspapers, and as a result Rupert is reputed to have reined in some of their sexual content. Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ...

Murdoch is a life-governor of the Royal Women's Hospital. She is Patron of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She was a founding member of the Deafness Foundation of Victoria. The first woman on the council of trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, Murdoch was a founding member of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop. The Royal Womens Hospital, located in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton, is Australias largest specialist womens hospital, offering a full range of services in maternity, gynaecology, neonatal care and womens health. ... The Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne, Australia is the major specialist paediatric hospital for Victoria offering a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and adolescents. ... National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. ...

The garden at Murdoch's property, Cruden Farm at Langwarrin, near Frankston (south-east of Melbourne), is one of Australia's finest examples of landscape gardening and is regularly open to the public. It was originally designed by Edna Walling. Murdoch is a popular figure in the area, where she has donated to many local charities, and is known locally as "the Dame." Langwarrin is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Frankston can refer to: Frankston, Victoria - a suburb of Melbourne, Australia The City of Frankston - a Local Government Area in the same city The Frankston railway line in the same city Frankston railway station - the last station on the aforementioned railway line This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Landscape gardening refers to the art of creating a sculptured look to large or small scale gardens. ... Edna Walling (1895–1973) was one of Australias most influential landscape designers. ...

Honours

Murdoch is a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She also holds an award from the French government for funding an exhibition of works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin in Melbourne in 2002. She is an honorary fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, and funded and helped to establish the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture and the Australian Garden History Society. Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, wearing on her left shoulder the Order of Australias Sovereign Badge. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority... Auguste Rodin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects is a non-profit professional institute formed to serve the mutual interests of its members and the wider profession throughout Australia. ...

In 1968 Murdoch was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Melbourne in acknowledgement of her contributions to research, the arts and philanthropy. Trinity College, Melbourne installed her as a Fellow in 2000. Following extensive donations to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, a Tasmanian species of Boronia (B. elisabethiae) was named after her. In 2004 a high school, Langwarrin Secondary College, was renamed Elisabeth Murdoch College to honour Murdoch's work within the local community. The Old Quad Building, formerly Old Law The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia, and the oldest in Victoria. ... . The arms of Trinity College, Melbourne - Pro Ecclesia Pro Patria Bishops Behan Horsfall Chapel from Royal Parade Horsfall Chapel from the Bulpadok Organ in Horsfall Chapel Trinity College is the oldest residential college of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and was founded in 1872 on a site which had... Langwarrin is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

As of 2006 Murdoch remains in good health, maintaining a busy schedule of committee meetings and charity functions. This high level of charity work earned her the Victorian of the Year award in 2005 at the age of 97. 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Victorian of the Year is an award given to the most outstanding Victorian during any given year. ...

References

• Ancestry of Rupert Murdoch

Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch with Rupert Murdoch and one of his sisters in 1937, departing Melbourne by sea for Britain

• A tapestry portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch may be seen (here).