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3 unusual facts about Mary Herring


Mary Herring

In 1918 she had met Edmund Herring, then a young Australian captain in the British Army on leave from the Macedonian front of the Great War, and they were married on 6 April 1922 at Toorak Presbyterian Church.

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Herring and Vera Scantlebury Brown had both attended Toorak College and were medical students at the University of Melbourne together.

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Born the eldest of four children of Sir Thomas Ranken Lyle, a mathematical physicist, and his wife, Frances Isobel Clare Millear, she attended Toorak College between 1906 and 1912, and she excelled both academically and at sport.



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