Marigold_Southey

Marigold Southey

Marigold Southey

Australian philanthropist

Marigold Merlyn Baillieu Southey, Lady Southey AC (née Myer; born 2 May 1928) is an Australian philanthropist who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria from 2001 to 2006.

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Lady Southey was born in San Francisco into the Myer family, the youngest of four children of Sidney and Merlyn Myer (née Baillieu).[1] She was educated at St Catherine's School, Toorak[2] and the University of Melbourne.[3]

From the mid-1950s until 1999, she was director of the Myer family companies. In 1996, she succeeded her brother, Sidney, as president of the philanthropic Myer Foundation until she resigned in 2004.[3]

On 1 January 2001, Lady Southey was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria under Governor John Landy.

In 1950, she married Ross Shelmerdine,[4] who died in 1979—they had four children. In 1982, she married businessman and former Liberal Party president Sir Robert Southey, becoming Lady Southey.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Southey, Marigold Merlyn Baillieu (1928 - )". Australian Women's Register. The National Foundation for Australian Women.
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    "Lady Southey AC - St Catherines School". St Catherines School. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
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    "BIO – Lady Southey AM Lieutenant Governor of Victoria". Australian Cancer Research Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 March 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  4. [4]
    "Shelmerdine-Myer wedding pictures". The Argus. Melbourne. 25 January 1950. p. 11. Retrieved 21 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. [5]
    Wood, Leonie (3 September 2005). "Clan plots family reunion". The Age. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
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