Record ID:
35703029 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no 96054984
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18931209
  • Adelaide (S.A.)
Death:
  • 19711018
  • Ryde (N.S.W.)
Associated with:
  • Australia
Fields of activity:
  • Law Child welfare Women's rights
Occupations:
  • Lawyers Social activists Authors
Used for:
  • Tenison Woods, M. C. (Mary Cecil)
  • Woods, M. C. Tenison (Mary Cecil Tenison), 1893-1971
  • Woods, Mary Tenison, 1893-1971
  • Tenison Woods, M. C.
  • Kitson, Mary Cecil, 1893-1971
Notes:
  • Capital issues and economic organization, 1947: t.p. (M.C. Tenison Woods, LL.B.)
  • LC/NAF 21 September 2016: authorized access point (Tenison Woods, M. C.)
  • ADB online 21 September 2016 (Mary Cecil Tenison Woods (1893-1971), lawyer, was born on 9 December 1893 in Adelaide, daughter of John Kitson, police detective, and his wife Mary Agnes, née McClure. Educated at St Aloysius's College by the Sisters of Mercy and at the University of Adelaide (LL.B., 1916), she was the first woman to graduate in law in South Australia and to be admitted to the Bar (20 October 1917). Much of her early work was in the Children's Court and laid the basis for her later commitment to the cause of child welfare reform. At St Lawrence's Catholic Church, North Adelaide, on 13 December 1924 Mary Kitson married Julian Gordon Tenison Woods, a lawyer; they were divorced in 1933. She moved with her son to Sydney and worked as a legal editor with Butterworths, and as an author, and in child welfare and women's rights. In 1950 she was appointed chief of the office of the status of women in the division of human rights, United Nations Secretariat, New York. She left that position in 1958, retiring to Sydney; she died on 18 October 1971 in Mount St Margaret Hospital, Ryde.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tenison-woods-mary-cecil-8772
Local system number:
  • 000000707216
  • abv04959221
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda OCoLC VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc