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Name	Mary Scarvell Treloar
Alternative Names	Mary Scarvell Spencer Mary Scarvell Lang
Born	21 December, 1914 Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	26 April, 1996 (aged 81) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cultural Heritage	Irish Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Spencer, Gordon (husband) Lang, Alice Scarvell (mother) Lang, Patrick William (brother) Lang, Diana Margaret (niece)
Education *	Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart (Sydney) (student, 1926-1929)
Occupation or Descriptor *	poet (1934-1987) New South Wales, Australia cattle breeder (1955-1990) New South Wales, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1987-1990) New South Wales, Australia
Clubs *	Queen's Club (Sydney) (member)
Properties *	Carlaminda (NSW)

* Dates are approximate

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