![Dame Florence [Flora] Amelia <I>Brumby</I> Reid](https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2021/274/232598539_8e7199f3-c50b-4cba-9990-bb2b47370c5a.png?size=photos250)
Wife of Sir George Houston Reid....4th Prime Minister of Australia.
Born at Longford, Tasmania, Flora Brumby was the daughter of a farmer from Cressy, Tasmania.
She married George Reid on 5 November 1891 at the Presbyterian Manse at Wangaratta, Victoria, when she was 23 and George was 46.
The couple had three children....Douglas, Thelma and Clive.
Flora had been a Vice President of the Sydney Women's Electoral League along with Jane "Jeanie" Barton, wife of Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia [1901 - 1903]. While her husband was Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1910, she hosted a reception for former US President Theodore Roosevelt....and attended the funeral of King Edward VII.
For her work in assisting Australian soldiers recuperating in London during the Great War 1914 - 1918, she was appointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire [GBE] in August 1917.
When Sir George Reid died in 1918, aged 72, he left all of his Estate to his "beloved wife as a slight recognition of her devoted love and help during the whole of our married life." She died at Rose Bay, New South Wales on 1 September 1950 aged 82 and was then buried with her husband at Putney Vale Cemetery.
Born at Longford, Tasmania, Flora Brumby was the daughter of a farmer from Cressy, Tasmania.
She married George Reid on 5 November 1891 at the Presbyterian Manse at Wangaratta, Victoria, when she was 23 and George was 46.
The couple had three children....Douglas, Thelma and Clive.
Flora had been a Vice President of the Sydney Women's Electoral League along with Jane "Jeanie" Barton, wife of Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia [1901 - 1903]. While her husband was Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1910, she hosted a reception for former US President Theodore Roosevelt....and attended the funeral of King Edward VII.
For her work in assisting Australian soldiers recuperating in London during the Great War 1914 - 1918, she was appointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire [GBE] in August 1917.
When Sir George Reid died in 1918, aged 72, he left all of his Estate to his "beloved wife as a slight recognition of her devoted love and help during the whole of our married life." She died at Rose Bay, New South Wales on 1 September 1950 aged 82 and was then buried with her husband at Putney Vale Cemetery.
Wife of Sir George Houston Reid....4th Prime Minister of Australia.
Born at Longford, Tasmania, Flora Brumby was the daughter of a farmer from Cressy, Tasmania.
She married George Reid on 5 November 1891 at the Presbyterian Manse at Wangaratta, Victoria, when she was 23 and George was 46.
The couple had three children....Douglas, Thelma and Clive.
Flora had been a Vice President of the Sydney Women's Electoral League along with Jane "Jeanie" Barton, wife of Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia [1901 - 1903]. While her husband was Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1910, she hosted a reception for former US President Theodore Roosevelt....and attended the funeral of King Edward VII.
For her work in assisting Australian soldiers recuperating in London during the Great War 1914 - 1918, she was appointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire [GBE] in August 1917.
When Sir George Reid died in 1918, aged 72, he left all of his Estate to his "beloved wife as a slight recognition of her devoted love and help during the whole of our married life." She died at Rose Bay, New South Wales on 1 September 1950 aged 82 and was then buried with her husband at Putney Vale Cemetery.
Born at Longford, Tasmania, Flora Brumby was the daughter of a farmer from Cressy, Tasmania.
She married George Reid on 5 November 1891 at the Presbyterian Manse at Wangaratta, Victoria, when she was 23 and George was 46.
The couple had three children....Douglas, Thelma and Clive.
Flora had been a Vice President of the Sydney Women's Electoral League along with Jane "Jeanie" Barton, wife of Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia [1901 - 1903]. While her husband was Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1910, she hosted a reception for former US President Theodore Roosevelt....and attended the funeral of King Edward VII.
For her work in assisting Australian soldiers recuperating in London during the Great War 1914 - 1918, she was appointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire [GBE] in August 1917.
When Sir George Reid died in 1918, aged 72, he left all of his Estate to his "beloved wife as a slight recognition of her devoted love and help during the whole of our married life." She died at Rose Bay, New South Wales on 1 September 1950 aged 82 and was then buried with her husband at Putney Vale Cemetery.
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