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Ivy Deakin Brookes (14 July 1883 – 27 December 1970) was an Australian community worker and activist. She held leadership positions across a wide range of organisations in Victoria. She was president of the National Council of Women of Australia from 1948 to 1953.
The daughter of former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, and wife of public official Herbert Brookes, Ivy Brookes played an active part in Australian political life. She occupied a central role in the National Council of Women; the Housewives’ Association; the International Club of Victoria; the Women’s Hospital; and in various boards and ...
Ivy Brookes (1883-1970), born on 14 July 1883 at South Yarra, was musically gifted, crowning her conservatorium career with the Ormond Scholarship for singing (1904); she played in Marshall Hall's orchestra in 1903-13.
Ivy Brookes founded the first Housewives' Association in Australia in 1915. Ivy Brookes was born in South Yarra, Victoria, in 1883, the eldest daughter of Pattie and Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia. She was educated privately and at Merton Hall.
Ivy Brookes was a dedicated community worker, supporting women’s groups and the arts. For fifty years she was a member of the board of the Royal Women’s Hospital ( Patrick, 1979/2006 ). In 1933, she established the International Club of Victoria, an organisation aimed at ‘the fostering of international understanding and peace ...
The eldest daughter of Australia’s second Prime Minister Alfred Deakin and his wife Pattie and the wife of businessman and philanthropist Herbert Brookes, Ivy had many cultural, philanthropic and political interests.
MS 1924 consists of correspondence, notes, diaries, minute books, photographs and cuttings covering every phase of the careers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes.
