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Coral Magnolia Lansbury (14 October 1929 – 3 April 1991) was an Australian-born writer and academic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A34933?mainTabTemplate=agentWorksBy )〕 She is the mother of Malcolm Turnbull, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia. ==Early life and family== Coral Magnolia Lansbury was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to British parents. She was a distant cousin of the British film and television actor Angela Lansbury.〔〔''(The New York Times )]'' obituary〕 Lansbury attended North Sydney Girls High School and sat the NSW Leaving Certificate〔 〕 in 1945, entering the University of Sydney in 1947 as an unmatriculated student.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=University Examination Results for the years 1943-1944-1945-1946-1947 )〕 She studied Arts (history, anthropology and archaeology) and achieved first-class honours but was ineligible to graduate as she had not matriculated. Her student card is in the University of Sydney Archives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The University of Sydney Archives )〕 Lansbury was the recipient of the George Arnold Wood Memorial Prize (aeq) and the Maud Stiles Memorial Prize (aeq). The George Arnold Wood Memorial Prize was awarded annually for proficiency in History II. The Maud Stiles Memorial Prize was awarded annually to a woman student for proficiency in History II. At 19, she started work at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Lansbury's father worked in the early radio industry in Australia with the Australian Broadcasting Commission as it was then known. He got her a part in a radio drama.〔 Her first marriage was to radio producer George Edwards〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary – Coral Magnolia Lansbury – Obituaries Australia )〕 on 20 February 1953. Edwards had enjoyed some fame as Dad in ''Dad and Dave from Snake Gully''. Lansbury was his fourth wife. The next day, he was admitted to hospital with pneumonia and on 28 August 1953 (six months later) George Edwards died.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/book-launch-the-adbs-story )〕 In 1954, she gave birth to her son Malcolm Turnbull, who became the Prime Minister of Australia in 2015, by her second husband Bruce Turnbull. She worked for the ABC into the 1960s but as television supplanted radio drama she turned more to academic interests.〔 In 1963 she moved to New Zealand and subsequently married John Salmon, a university professor. Her son, Malcolm, was raised by his father after she left the family home when he was 10 years old. She then moved to New Zealand after the separation. She gained her doctorate at the University of Auckland before moving to Philadelphia in the United States in 1969 where she lived until her death.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coral Lansbury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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