Ivy Weber
Ivy Weber | |
|---|---|
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| Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Nunawading | |
| In office 2 October 1937 – 18 July 1943 | |
| Preceded by | William Boyland |
| Succeeded by | Bob Gray |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ivy Lavinia Filshie 7 June 1892 Independent |
| Spouses | Thomas Mitchell
(m. 1915; died 1917)Clarence Weber
(m. 1919; died 1930) |
| Occupation | Physical culturist, political organiser, politician |
Ivy Lavinia Weber (7 June 1892 – 6 March 1976) was an Australian politician.
Born at
Captains Flat in New South Wales to schoolteacher John Filshie and his wife Elizabeth Seaman, she was educated at the local schools, eventually becoming a physical culturist and organiser. On 11 December 1915 in Sydney she married Thomas Mitchell, a stock and station agent, with whom she had one son. They moved to Melbourne, but Thomas was killed in World War I in 1917. She married her second husband, fellow physical culturist Clarence Weber, on 7 March 1919; they had one son and two daughters.[1]
Following her husband's death in 1930, she experimented with several occupations, including as a lecturer on health and diet and a
independent. She generally supported Country Party Premier Albert Dunstan in the Assembly. She resigned from the Assembly in 1943 to contest the federal seat of Henty in the election of that year; she came fifth in a field of six candidates with 3.9% of the vote, and the seat was won by another independent, Arthur Coles.[1]
Weber contested
Springvale Crematorium.[1]
She was the first woman elected at a general election in Victoria (Millie Peacock had previously won the seat of Allandale at a by-election), and the first woman in Australia to win a seat as an independent.
Awards
Weber was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Parliament of Victoria (2004). "Weber, Ivy Lavinia". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
- ^ "Ivy Lavinia Weber".
