Hackett, Deborah Vernon (1887 - 1965)

Deborah Hackett was the wife of Sir John Hackett, and, after his death, she married Sir Frank Moulden. It was Lady Hackett-Moulden who called a meeting in May 1920 to oversee the reestablishment of the South Australian Council of Women. She was also State Commissioner of the Girl Guides Association.

In 1923, Lady Moulden (as she became after her second husband was knighted) joined F.W. Young to form a syndicate to mine tantalite at Wodgina. She became Chairman of Directors of Tantalite Ltd in 1931. She also held interests in wolfram and beryl mines in the Northern Territory, and a partnership in the Minilya Pastoral Company. The University of Western Australia conferred an honorary LLD on Lady Moulden in 1932. In 1936 she married Justice Basil Buller Murphy.

• Buller-Murphy, Deborah (married name)
• Dr Buller Murphy (married name)
• Drake-Brockman, Deborah (maiden name)
• Hackett, Deborah (former married name)
• Lady Hackett (former married name)
• Lady Hackett-Moulden (former married name)
• Lady Moulden (former married name)

Books

• Buller-Murphy, Deborah, An Attempt to Eat the Moon, and other stories recounted from the Aborigines, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1958. [ Details... ]
• Buller-Murphy, Deborah (Lady Hackett), The Australian Household Guide, E.S. Wigg & Son Ltd, Perth, 1916. [ Details... ]

See also

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]