People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Simpson, Nell

Birth

8 October, 1904
Turton, Lancashire, England

Death

18 July, 2000 (aged 95)
Gracemere, Queensland, Australia

Cause of Death

kidney disease

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• English

Occupation or Descriptor

• bookkeeper
• caretaker
• clerk
• cook
• domestic servant
• farmer
• feminist
• labour party organiser
• mill worker
• pacifist
• political activist
• public servant
• socialist
• trade union official

Political Activism

• Independent Labour Party (UK)
• No More War Movement (UK)
• ALP
• ALP (NSW)
• Federated Clerks Union of Australia (NSW)
• Australian Peace Council (NSW)
• No-Conscription Council
• Labor Women's Central Organising Committee (NSW)

Workplaces

• Aramac (Qld)
• Commonwealth prices commission
• Public Service Association of NSW