Gough and margaret whitlam biography

gough and margaret whitlam biography

Margaret Whitlam - Wikipedia

    Margaret Elaine Whitlam AO (née Dovey; 19 November – 17 March ) was an Australian social campaigner, author, and athlete.
Gough Whitlam's partner: Margaret Whitlam | naa.gov.au

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    Margaret Whitlam always had a presence, long before she met Gough, but was never pretentious.

Margaret Whitlam

Australian social campaigner and athlete

Margaret Elaine WhitlamAO (née Dovey; 19 November 1919 – 17 March 2012) was an Australian social campaigner, author, and athlete. She was a representative of Australia in swimming at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney. Her husband was Gough Whitlam, the 21st Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975.[1]

Early life

Born Margaret Dovey in Bondi, New South Wales,[2] she was the daughter of Wilfred Robert "Bill" Dovey, a New South Wales Supreme Court judge and Mary Dorothy Duncan.[3] She attended SCEGGS Darlinghurst, where she excelled at sport.[2] She grew to stand 188 cm (6'2") tall, towering over most other women. At the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, she represented Australia in the 220-yard breaststroke, placing sixth out of seven swimmers.[4] Dovey began an economics degree at the University of Sydney in 1938 before transferring to social wo

Gough Whitlam - Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas

    Margaret Elaine Whitlam AO (née Dovey; 19 November 1919 – 17 March 2012) was an Australian social campaigner, author, and athlete.
From 1972 to 1975, Margaret Whitlam was an outspoken prime ministerial spouse, a frequent guest speaker, broadcaster and columnist.
Keeping Gough in line was in fact a lifelong project for Margaret.
Her husband was Gough Whitlam, the 21st Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975.

Gough Whitlam, Australian Twenty First Prime Minister, Biography

  • Edward Gough Whitlam [a] (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975.

    • For her, every day was to be lived to the full

  • Growing up 1916–40 Whitlam was born in the Melbourne suburb of Kew on 11 July 1916.

    • Gough Whitlam Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline

  • MARGARET WHITLAM, 1919-2012 Margaret Whitlam always had a presence, long before she met Gough, but was never pretentious.

    • Gough and Margaret Whitlam: the greatest partnership

      Margaret Whitlam was one half of one of the most extraordinary and certainly the most enduring personal and political partnerships in Australian history.

    Biography - Margaret Elaine Whitlam - Labour Australia

  • Gough Whitlam met Margaret Elaine Dovey at Sydney party in the summer of World War II had just started.