![]() ![]() Initially interested in Jewish colonization, she later became ladies' secretary of Rev. Her qualities of leadership, conviction and perseverance matched the social and political climate of late nineteenth-century South Australia. In 1879 Mary, widowed, sailed with her daughter Evelyn for Adelaide to nurse her sick son John Benjamin after his death next year they remained, Mary becoming devoted to 'dear Adelaide' which she could not in any case afford to leave.įor the rest of her life Mary Lee, 'once the slip of an old red-hot Tory stem', worked single mindedly for political and social reform. ![]() In 1844 she married George(?) Lee, organist and vicar-choral of Armagh Cathedral they had four sons and three daughters. Mary Lee (1821-1909), suffragist, was born on 14 February 1821 in Monaghan, Ireland, daughter of John Walsh. State Library of South Australia, b21254278 ![]()
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