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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Dame" title="Dame">Dame</a></div><div class="fn">Elisabeth Murdoch</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of Australia">AC</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Dame_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire">DBE</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Elisabethmurdoch.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Elisabethmurdoch.jpg/220px-Elisabethmurdoch.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Elisabethmurdoch.jpg/330px-Elisabethmurdoch.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Elisabethmurdoch.jpg/440px-Elisabethmurdoch.jpg 2x" data-file-width="784" data-file-height="1121" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Murdoch opening a drug rehabilitation centre in Melbourne, May 2005</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Elisabeth Joy Greene</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1909-02-08</span>)</span>8 February 1909<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">5 December 2012<span style="display:none">(2012-12-05)</span> (aged 103)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Melbourne, Australia</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Australian_nationality_law" title="Australian nationality law">Australian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Philanthropist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of Australia">AC</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Dame_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire">DBE</a></span></span> (née <b>Greene</b>; 8 February 1909 – 5 December 2012), also known as <b>Elisabeth, Lady Murdoch</b>, was an Australian philanthropist and matriarch of the <a href="/wiki/Murdoch_family" title="Murdoch family">Murdoch family</a>. She was the wife of Australian newspaper publisher Sir <a href="/wiki/Keith_Murdoch" title="Keith Murdoch">Keith Murdoch</a> and the mother of international media proprietor <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch">Rupert Murdoch</a>. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">Order of the British Empire</a> (DBE) in 1963 for her charity work in Australia and overseas. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sculpture_of_Dame_Elisabeth_Murdoch_in_the_Frankston_Arts_Centre_(September_2015).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Sculpture_of_Dame_Elisabeth_Murdoch_in_the_Frankston_Arts_Centre_%28September_2015%29.jpg/220px-Sculpture_of_Dame_Elisabeth_Murdoch_in_the_Frankston_Arts_Centre_%28September_2015%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Sculpture_of_Dame_Elisabeth_Murdoch_in_the_Frankston_Arts_Centre_%28September_2015%29.jpg/330px-Sculpture_of_Dame_Elisabeth_Murdoch_in_the_Frankston_Arts_Centre_%28September_2015%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Sculpture_of_Dame_Elisabeth_Murdoch_in_the_Frankston_Arts_Centre_%28September_2015%29.jpg/440px-Sculpture_of_Dame_Elisabeth_Murdoch_in_the_Frankston_Arts_Centre_%28September_2015%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2848" data-file-height="4272" /></a><figcaption>Sculpture of Murdoch</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elisabeth_Murdoch_(philanthropist)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Murdoch was born in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a> on 8 February 1909. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Marie Grace de Lancey (<span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a></span> Forth) and Rupert Greene.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 fourth of the 10 daughters of George Govett.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her mother's ancestors were Scottish and English; one of her maternal great-grandfathers, <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Forth" title="Frederick Forth">Frederick Forth</a>, was a lieutenant governor in the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elisabeth was educated at <a href="/wiki/St_Catherine%27s_School,_Toorak" title="St Catherine's School, Toorak">St Catherine's School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Toorak,_Victoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Toorak, Victoria">Toorak</a>, and at <a href="/wiki/Clyde_School" title="Clyde School">Clyde School</a> in Woodend.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She married Keith Murdoch, 23 years her senior, in 1928 and inherited the bulk of his fortune when he died in 1952. Apart from Rupert, her other children are Janet Calvert-Jones AO (born 1939), Anne Kantor AO (1937–2022) and Helen Handbury AO (1929–2004). At the time of her death, she had 77 living descendants.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philanthropy">Philanthropy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elisabeth_Murdoch_(philanthropist)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Philanthropy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Murdoch devoted her life to philanthropy. Before her marriage she worked as a volunteer for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_for_the_Prevention_of_Cruelty_to_Animals" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals">Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She joined the management committee of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Children%27s_Hospital,_Melbourne" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne">Royal Children's Hospital</a> in 1933, serving as its president from 1954 to 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was earmarked to succeed to the presidency by her predecessor <a href="/wiki/Ella_Latham" title="Ella Latham">Ella Latham</a> and oversaw the hospital's move from its <a href="/wiki/Carlton,_Victoria" title="Carlton, Victoria">Carlton</a> facilities to a new purpose-built campus in <a href="/wiki/Parkville,_Victoria" title="Parkville, Victoria">Parkville</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2003 article in the Melbourne newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/The_Age" title="The Age">The Age</a></i> 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. Many of Melbourne and Australia's most cherished institutions, from the Royal Children's 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."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Murdoch was a Life Governor of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Women%27s_Hospital,_Melbourne" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne">Royal Women's Hospital</a>. She was the patron of the <a href="/wiki/Murdoch_Children%27s_Research_Institute" title="Murdoch Children's Research Institute">Murdoch Children's Research Institute</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and of the Australian American Association (Victoria), founded by her husband. She was a patron and founding member of disability organisation <a href="/wiki/EW_Tipping_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="EW Tipping Foundation">EW Tipping Foundation</a> and a founding member of the Deafness Foundation of Victoria. The first woman on the council of trustees of the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Victoria" title="National Gallery of Victoria">National Gallery of Victoria</a>, Murdoch was a founding member of the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Tapestry_Workshop" title="Australian Tapestry Workshop">Victorian Tapestry Workshop</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was a member of the Patrons Council of the <a href="/wiki/Epilepsy_Foundation_of_Victoria" title="Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria">Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria</a>. Her garden, "Cruden Farm", at <a href="/wiki/Langwarrin,_Victoria" title="Langwarrin, Victoria">Langwarrin</a>, is one of Australia's finest examples of <a href="/wiki/Landscape_gardening" class="mw-redirect" title="Landscape gardening">landscape gardening</a> and is regularly open to the public. It was originally designed by <a href="/wiki/Edna_Walling" title="Edna Walling">Edna Walling</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Distinctions">Distinctions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elisabeth_Murdoch_(philanthropist)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Distinctions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Orders_and_medals">Orders and medals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elisabeth_Murdoch_(philanthropist)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Orders and medals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For her service as president of the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Murdoch was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Civil Division (CBE) in the 1961 Birthday Honours list.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For her role in building a new children's hospital in Melbourne, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Civil Division (DBE) in the 1963 New Year Honours list.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 1989, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia, Civil Division (AC) for services to the community<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also receiving the Centenary Medal in 2001 for her philanthropic services to the Australian arts community.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Honours">Honours</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elisabeth_Murdoch_(philanthropist)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Murdoch was an honorary fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Institute_of_Landscape_Architects" title="Australian Institute of Landscape Architects">Australian Institute of Landscape Architects</a> and helped to establish the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture and the Australian Garden History Society. In 1983, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Melbourne" title="University of Melbourne">University of Melbourne</a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in acknowledgement of her contributions to research, the arts and philanthropy. <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Melbourne" title="Trinity College, Melbourne">Trinity College, Melbourne</a>, installed her as a fellow in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That year a portrait of Murdoch for the <a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_(Australia)" title="National Portrait Gallery (Australia)">National Portrait Gallery</a> in Canberra was the first portrait commissioned of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop. The image was composed by painter Christopher Pyett, adapted on computer by <a href="/wiki/Normana_Wight" title="Normana Wight">Normana Wight</a> and woven by Merrill Dumbrell.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2001, Treloars gave her name to a new rose introduction.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following extensive donations to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens_Victoria" title="Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria">Royal Botanic Gardens</a> in Melbourne, a Tasmanian species of <a href="/wiki/Boronia" title="Boronia">Boronia</a> (<i>B. elisabethiae</i>) was named after her.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was also awarded by the French government for funding an exhibition of works by the French sculptor <a href="/wiki/Auguste_Rodin" title="Auguste Rodin">Auguste Rodin</a> in Melbourne in 2002. In 2003, Murdoch was admitted into life membership of Philanthropy Australia, and awarded the key to the City of Melbourne in an official ceremony at the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Town_Hall" title="Melbourne Town Hall">Melbourne Town Hall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2004, a high school, Langwarrin Secondary College, was renamed <a href="/wiki/Langwarrin,_Victoria" title="Langwarrin, Victoria">Elisabeth Murdoch College</a> to honour her work in the local community. Murdoch's charity work earned her the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_of_the_Year" title="Victorian of the Year">Victorian of the Year</a> award in 2005 at age 96.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, the main performance venue of the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Recital_Centre" title="Melbourne Recital Centre">Melbourne Recital Centre</a> was named in her honour.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the same year she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Grammar_School" title="Geelong Grammar School">Geelong Grammar School</a> completed a new girls' boarding house named in her honour.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2007, aged 97 years and 11 months, Murdoch surpassed Dame <a href="/wiki/Alice_Chisholm" title="Alice Chisholm">Alice Chisholm</a> as Australia's longest-lived dame.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Patronage">Patronage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elisabeth_Murdoch_(philanthropist)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Patronage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Murdoch was a patron of the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Family_Association" title="Australian Family Association">Australian Family Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elisabeth_Murdoch_(philanthropist)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 5 December 2012, Murdoch died in her sleep at Cruden Farm, Langwarrin, Victoria, at the age of 103.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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