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Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)
Dame Elisabeth Joy, Lady Murdoch AC DBE (née Greene; 8 February 1909 – 5 December 2012) was an Australian philanthropist. She was the wife of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of American international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1963 for her charity work in Australia and overseas.
==Family==
Murdoch was born in Melbourne on 8 February 1909, the third daughter of Marie Grace de Lancey (Forth) and Rupert Greene. Her grandfather, William Henry Greene, was an Irish railway engineer (later one of the three Commissioners of Victorian Railways) who emigrated to Australia and married Fanny, the fourth of the 10 daughters of George Govett.〔Murdoch by William Shawcross, 1993, Simon & Schuster, NY〕 Her mother's ancestors were Scottish and English; one of her maternal great-grandfathers was a lieutenant governor in the West Indies.〔(Ancestry of Rupert Murdoch )〕 Elisabeth was educated at St Catherine's School in Toorak, and at Clyde School in Woodend. She married Keith Murdoch, 23 years her senior, in 1928 and inherited the bulk of his fortune when he died in 1952. Apart from Rupert, her children are Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor and Helen Handbury (1929–2004). At her death, she had 77 direct living descendants (names unknown). Her granddaughter, Elisabeth Murdoch, was prominent in the British business world and was married to Matthew Freud.
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