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Grace Teresa Lightfoot, née Quirk (1894-1962) political activist and mayoress
Birth: 29 September 1894 at Tocumwal, New South Wales, daughter of Frederick Grace Quirk (1848-1931), a farmer, born at Plymouth, Devon, England, and Elizabeth Victoria, née Cossey (1861-1932), born at Ballarat, Victoria. Marriage: 1921 at Northcote, Victoria, to native-born Richard Henry Lightfoot (1889-1954), a saddler and sometime Labor mayor of Richmond, born at Mackay, Queensland, who was a widower with two children. They had one daughter and two sons. Death: 13 July 1962 in her residence at 166 Elizabeth Street, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria.
Sources
ALP Victoria branch Central Executive Report 1962/63; Fact, 2 August 1962; Merrifield papers, State Library of Victoria.
'Lightfoot, Grace Teresa (1894–1962)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/lightfoot-grace-teresa-34271/text42996, accessed 3 December 2024.
29 September,
1894
Tocumwal,
New South Wales,
Australia
13 July,
1962
(aged 67)
Richmond, Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia
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