Elizabeth Eggleston
Australian activist
Elizabeth Moulton Eggleston (6 November 1934 – 24 March 1976) was an Australian activist, author, lawyer and champion for Indigenous Australians. One obituary described Eggleston as "gentle and unassuming" woman.
Eggleston was born in Armadale, Melbourne to Sir Richard Moulton Eggleston, a barrister and later judge who became chancellor of Monash University and Isabel Marjorie, a mathematics teacher.
Eggleston died in East Melbourne in 1976. Her memorial service was attended by members of the Indigenous community. She is buried in Brighton Cemetery.
Education
Eggleston attended the Presbyterian Ladies' College and Tintern Church of England Girls' Grammar School.
In 1956, Eggleston graduated with an LL.B degree from the University of Melbourne with second-class honors (division B). In 1958 she graduated with an LL.M. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and in 1964 she finished an arts degree at the University of Melbourne. In 1964 she became the first doctoral candidate in the faculty of law at Monash University, from which she obtained her Ph.D. in 1970; she wrote her thesis on Aborigines and the administration of justice.
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