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Mabel Brookes
Australian humanitarian and socialite (1890ā1975) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dame Mabel Brookes, DBE (15 June 1890 ā 30 April 1975) was an Australian community worker, activist, socialite, writer, historian, memoirist and humanitarian. Born Mabel Balcombe Emmerton in Raveloe, South Yarra, Victoria in 1890, her best-known service was as president of the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1923 to 1970, where she presided over the addition of three new wings within ten years.
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