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Elsie Curtin Elsie Curtin i(A50919 works by) (birth name: Elsie Milda Curtin) (a.k.a. Elsie Cole; Mrs J. W. Cole; Elsie Milda Macleod; Lambie)
Born: Established: 30 Dec 1917 Perth, Western Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 5 May 2009 Perth, Western Australia,
Gender: Female
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Elsie Macleod is one of two children of Australian Prime Minister John Curtin (q.v.) and Elsie (nee Needham) Curtin. Macleod undertook secretarial studies after leaving school and worked for a time in the civil engineer's office of the Western Australian Government Railways. In the early 1940s she was briefly married to William Cole, a dentist.

In 1944 Macleod lived with her father in the Lodge, Canberra before the arrival of Curtin's wife. In 1948, Macleod married Stan Macleod, a medical auditor. She spent most of her life in the Curtin family home in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe.

Source: Bob Wurth, 'Wartime PM's Daughter Battled His Critics', Sydney Morning Herald (26 May 2009): 12.

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