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Name	Dame Alexandra Margaret Hasluck
Alternative Names	Alexandra Margaret Darker
Born	26 August, 1908 North Perth, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Died	18 June, 1993 (aged 84) Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Cause of Death	unknown
Related Entries	[View as tree] Hasluck, Patience Eliza (mother-in-law) Hasluck, Lewis Norman (brother-in-law)
Education *	Ormiston College (Ormiston, Brisbane) (student, 1914-1918) Perth College (Mt Lawley, Perth) (student, 1919-1925) University of Western Australia (student, 1926-1928)
Occupation *	historian (general) (1930-1980) Western Australia, Australia short story writer (1968-1970) Western Australia, Australia governor-general's spouse (1969-1974) Federal, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1978-1982) Western Australia, Australia
Awards	Dame of Grace of the Order of St John (recipient, 1971) Dame of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1978)
Legacies *	Hasluck (WA) federal electorate (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Royal Western Australian Historical Society (honorary secretary, 1934) Freshwater Bay Press (co-owner, 1939-1941)
Workplaces *	St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls (Mosman Park, Perth) (teacher, 1930-1931)

* Dates are approximate

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