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Biographical entry Menzies, Pattie Maie (1899 - 1995)

Dame

Born

2 March 1899
Alexandra, Victoria, Australia

Died

1995
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Alternative Names

Leckie, Pattie Maie

Details

Pattie Maie Menzies was the wife of Robert Menzies. Born Pattie Maie Leckie, she married Menzies on 27 September 1920. Pattie was daughter of John William Leckie (1872-1947), who served in Menzies' first cabinet. She was a strong supporter of her husband's political career. Pattie was made Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire in 1954. After Menzies' death in 1978, she continued to support a range of organisations and causes. In 1992 Pattie Menzies moved to Canberra to live with her daughter.

Sources

Cunningham, James. 'Vale, Dame Pattie', The Age, 31 August 1995, 13.

Henderson, Gerard. 'Dame Pattie's Gifts of Tolerance and Kindness', The Age, 31 August 1995, 1.

Children

Husband

Menzies, Robert Gordon (Bob) (1894 - 1978)

Wrote Inscriptions in these Books

Antony (Viscount Knebworth): A Record of Youth (1936), Lytton, V. Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of

Parent

Leckie, John William (Jack) (1872 - 1947)

Related Books

At the Piano. Ivor Newton: The World of an Accompanist (1966), Newton, Ivor
At the Piano was presented to Pattie Menzies.
Canberra: A Nation's Capital (1954), White, H.L. (ed.)
Canberra: A Nation's Capital was presented to Pattie Menzies.
Continental Cans, etc.: A Tourist's Guide to European Plumbing (1962), Miller, Perrin C.C.
Continental Cans, etc. was given to Pattie Menzies.
Dhidgerry Dhoo: A Tale Woven Around Fact (1952), Griffiths, Owen
Dhidgerry Dhoo was presented to Pattie Menzies.
The Eve of Saint Agnes (1909), Keats, John
The Eve of Saint Agnes was presented to Pattie Menzies.
Garden Book (1968), Sackville-West, V.
Garden Book was presented to Pattie Menzies.
Heads and Tales (1956), Thaarup, Aage
Heads and Tales was presented to Pattie Menzies.
A Highland Parish: The History of Fortingall (1928), Stewart, Alexander
A Highland Parish was presented to Pattie Menzies.
The Life and Work of Artist W. Ashton (1960), copy 2, Ashton, Will
The Life and Work of Artist W. Ashton was presented to Pattie Menzies.
The London Perambulator (1927), Bone, James
The London Perambulator was presented to Pattie Menzies.
My Years With Churchill (1958), McGowan, Norman
My Years With Churchill was presented to Pattie Menzies.
Number Nine, or The Mind-Sweepers (1952), Herbert, A.P.
Number Nine, or The Mind-Sweepers was presented to Pattie Menzies.
Pepita (1937), Sackville-West, V.
Pepita was presented to Pattie Menzies.
Poems of Tennyson, with an introduction by T. Herbert Warren (1911), Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Poems of Tennyson was presented to Pattie Menzies.
The Poetical Works of Adam Lindsay Gordon [n.d.]
The Poetical Works of Adam Lindsay Gordon was presented to Pattie Menzies.
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with introduction by Charles Eliot Norton [n.d.], Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was presented to Pattie Menzies.
The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (1911), Rosetti, William Michael (intro.)
The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier was presented to Pattie Menzies.
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with an introduction by Richard Garnett [n.d.], Shelley, Percy Bysshe
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley was presented to Pattie Menzies.
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth [n.d.], Dowden, Edward (intro.)
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth was presented to Pattie Menzies.
Show Me a Mountain: The Rise of an Australian Company, Ampol (1961), Simpson, Colin
Show Me a Mountain was presented to Pattie Menzies.
Spoon River Anthology (1963), Masters, Edgar Lee
Spoon River Anthology was presented to Pattie Menzies.
Treasures from the National Gallery of Art (1962), Cairns, Huntington and John Walker (eds)
Treasures from the National Gallery of Art was presented to Pattie Menzies.
West Australian Wild Flowers (1950), Gardner, C.A.
West Australian Wild Flowers was presented to Pattie Menzies.

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