About Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)
Dame Elisabeth Joy Murdoch, Lady Murdoch (née Greene; 8 February 1909 – 5 December 2012), also known as Elisabeth, Lady Murdoch, was an Australian philanthropist and matriarch of the Murdoch family. She was the wife of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1963 for her charity work in Australia and overseas. == Early life and education == Elisabeth Joy Greene was born in Melbourne on 8 February 1909. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Marie Grace de Lancey (née Forth) and Rupert Greene. Her grandfather, William Henry Greene, was an Irish railway engineer (later one of the three Commissioners of Victorian Railways) who emigrated to Australia and married Fanny, the fourth of the 10 daughters of George Govett. Her mother's ancestors were Scottish and English; one of her maternal great-grandfathers, Frederick Forth, was a lieutenant governor in the West Indies. Elisabeth was educated at St Catherine's School in Toorak, and at Clyde School in Woodend. == Personal life and death == She married Keith Murdoch, 23 years her senior, in 1928, and inherited the bulk of his fortune when he died in 1952. Apart from Rupert, her other children are Janet Calvert-Jones AO (born 1939), Anne Kantor AO (1937–2022), and Helen Handbury AO (1929–2004).
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