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For her service as president of the Royal
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on 8 February 1909. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Marie Grace de Lancey (Forth) and Rupert Greene. Her grandfather, William Henry Greene, was an Irish railway engineer (later one of the three
Commissioners of Victorian Railways) who emigrated to Australia and married Fanny, the
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Hospital to the Australian Ballet and the Botanic Gardens, have benefited from her involvement. But Murdoch also devoted herself to less popular causes: prisoners, children in care, those battling mental illness and substance abuse."
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fourth of the 10 daughters of George Govett. Her mother's ancestors were
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