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Arthur Hartley Harry and Family
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Start Date:
01 Jan 1876
Description:
Arthur Hartley Harry, born about 1876, was the youngest son of WH Harry. Arthur married Ethel Roby Holder, born on 7 Oct 1878, the eldest daughter of Sir Frederick and Lady Holder from South Australia. The marriage took place on 7 July 1908 at Kent Town, South Australia. They had five children, all born in Geelong: Arthur (1909-1909); Egbert Holder (1910); Marjorie Ethel (1912); Millicent Kate (20 May 1915) and Ralph Lindsay (1917).;;The family moved to Launceston in 1923 when AH Harry took up the position of classics master at the Launceston Church Grammar School. He remained there for 26 years. He was a life member of the Invermay Bowling Club and Old Launcestonians, and an elder at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church for 35 years. He died aged 85 on 1 September 1961.;;Ethel Roby Holder, later Harry, was the first woman to gain an MA from the Adelaide University. Her interests included church and missionary work, bush nursing, the Queen Victoria Hospital Board and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She died aged 86 on 1 September 1965.;;Marjorie and Millicent were educated at the Methodist Ladies College, Elphin Road, winning prizes every year from 1924 until 1932. Ralph was educated at LCGS and became Australia's Ambassador to the United Nations in 1975. He was an advocate of the international language of Esperanto.;;Millicent Harry gained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tasmania, a Bachelor of Divinity, and was awarded an MBE in 1978 in recognition of her work for temperance and the church. She wrote and illustrated children's books, recipes and temperance publications. She was a member of the WCTU from 1936 and world president from 1977 to 1986. She was also a member of the Country Women's Association, National Council of Women, Band of Hope and the Literary Association. She lived and worked for the temperance movement in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, and travelled around the world several times. Millicent died in Launceston aged 75 on 22 October 1990.;;In the 1930s the family lived at 'Austree', 69 Haigh Street, Mowbray Heights.
Information Sources:
Harry file at Launceston Library
Series Created By Agency:
LMSS572 'Millie's Musings'23 Oct 192431 May 1932