Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE (born 8 February 1909), philanthropist, is the widow of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch was born as Elisabeth Joy Greene in Melbourne to an Australian mother and an English father. She was educated at St Catherine's School an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls, located in Toorak, an inner south-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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  • Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE (born 8 February 1909), philanthropist, is the widow of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch was born as Elisabeth Joy Greene in Melbourne to an Australian mother and an English father. She was educated at St Catherine's School an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls, located in Toorak, an inner south-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. in Melbourne and at Clyde School. She married Keith Murdoch, 23 years her senior, in 1928 and inherited the bulk of his fortune when he died in 1952. When he was knighted she was styled Lady Murdoch. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963 and styled as Dame Elisabeth Murdoch.
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  • Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, opening a drug rehabilitation centre in Melbourne, May 2005
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  • Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE (born 8 February 1909), philanthropist, is the widow of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch was born as Elisabeth Joy Greene in Melbourne to an Australian mother and an English father. She was educated at St Catherine's School an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls, located in Toorak, an inner south-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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  • Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)
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  • Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
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