Georgina Temperley, BA MB BS, née Bourke (1880 – 19 August 1936) was an Australian medical doctor, remembered as the founder of One Woman, One Recruit, a patriotic organisation in Victoria during the Great War of 1914–1918.
History
editTemperley was born Frances Mary Lily Georgina Temperley Bourke in Adelaide, daughter of Francis Bourke and his wife Elizabeth Mary Bourke, née Lette, daughter of Henry Elmes Lette, cricketer and Tasmanian MHA.[1] Her mother, by this time known as Lily Bourke, married again, to George Harrisson of Jericho, Tasmania on 28 June 1890.[2]
She studied teaching at the Adelaide Teachers' College, and as Georgina Temperley Harrisson was employed as a pupil teacher at Burra in 1896.[3] Her first posting was to Port Wakefield in 1901; she resigned from the Norwood school in 1902.[4]
She married William Charlton Hubble in Warwick, Queensland in 1903; they had twins and later separated and divorced. She never remarried but began calling herself Georgina Temperley. She had begun a course in medicine sometime around 1914, but as Australia became enmeshed in the Great War she put her ambitions on hold and took up nursing. She became in 1917 the first female organiser of the Victorian State Recruiting Committee.[5] Enthusiasm for the war had waned, the 1916 conscription referendum had failed, and more volunteers were needed to relieve the men at the Front, and replace the casualties. With Mrs C. B. Moore (died 25 February 1931)[6] of the Australian Women's Association as secretary, she founded "One Woman, One Recruit League" to encourage women to induce the men in their lives to volunteer for military service, with the slogan "their womanhood to appeal to his manhood".[7] A year later the League was able to claim 200 volunteers due to their efforts[8] and was quietly dissolved.
She graduated in medicine from Melbourne University[9] in 1923.[10] She was Resident Medical Officer of the Wallsend Hospital, Newcastle for some time, and of Lithgow Hospital until early 1935.[11] Her last appointment was to the Hobart General Hospital.[12]
Personal
editTemperley married William Charlton Hubble (1880 – 17 February 1949)[13] in 1903; they divorced 1922.[14]
- Hubble, who was involved in the business side of newspapers, married again, to Bertha Rossi Ashton in 1923. She was the daughter of Julian Ashton.
Temperley was the mother of twins: George Temperley Charlton "Tom" Hubble (8 December 1903 – 13 June 1960), painter and advertising agent, and Nell Mary Lette Hubble (8 December 1903 – 14 October 1931), who also worked in advertising before becoming a nurse; she died in Dunedin, New Zealand.[15]
She was a sister[16] of the champion rower Thomas Harrison Bourke (2 February 1881 – 3 February 1948).[17]
References
edit- ^ "Family Notices". Launceston Examiner. Vol. XXXIX, no. 115. Tasmania, Australia. 15 May 1879. p. 2. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 13, 792. Victoria, Australia. 6 September 1890. p. 1. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The Education Department". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XXXIII, no. 9, 667. South Australia. 28 January 1896. p. 4. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Education Intelligence". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. XLV, no. 13, 753. South Australia. 15 November 1902. p. 10. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Miss Temperley Acts". The Herald (Melbourne). No. 12, 706. Victoria, Australia. 20 February 1917. p. 4. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Death of Mrs C. B. Moore". The Herald (Melbourne). No. 16, 780. Victoria, Australia. 26 February 1931. p. 13. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The "One Woman One Recruit" League". The Age. No. 19, 426. Victoria, Australia. 27 June 1917. p. 8. Retrieved 30 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "News in Brief". The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times. Vol. XIV, no. 4391. New South Wales, Australia. 1 July 1918. p. 1. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Personal". The Daily Examiner. Vol. 26, no. 8270. New South Wales, Australia. 28 January 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 30 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "University of Melbourne". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 24, 059. Victoria, Australia. 15 September 1923. p. 31. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Personal". Lithgow Mercury. New South Wales, Australia. 24 August 1936. p. 2. Retrieved 30 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Hobart Hospital". The Mercury (Hobart). Vol. CXLII, no. 20, 154. Tasmania, Australia. 30 May 1935. p. 2. Retrieved 30 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Death of Mr Hubble". The Propeller. Vol. XXXIX, no. 1979. New South Wales, Australia. 24 February 1949. p. 3. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Divorce Granted". Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette. Vol. LXI, no. 261. Queensland, Australia. 2 November 1922. p. 5. Retrieved 30 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 26, 590. Victoria, Australia. 4 November 1931. p. 1. Retrieved 30 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "About People". The Examiner (Tasmania). Vol. LXXXIX, no. 247. Tasmania, Australia. 14 October 1931. p. 10. Retrieved 30 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 29 August 1936. p. 14. Retrieved 30 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.