Dora Isabel Baudinet (19 April 1883 – 19 December 1945) was an Australian nurse and philanthropist. She founded the Sunshine Association of Tasmania.
Life
Baudinet was born in 1883 in
Coongulmerang near Bairnsdale in Victoria.
[ Her Tasmanian-born parents were Helen Jane (born McKay) and her husband Edmund Chaulk Baudinet. She was raised in Hobart by her mother as her father, who had been a grazier, died days before she was born. She was the last of three children and her father's brothers helped the family. She completed her schooling at the Friends' High School in 1898.][
In 1937 she and Margaret Reid, who was a headmistress, were in New Zealand where they saw provision for children that was unavailable in Tasmania. They decided to open a similar home to the one they had seen and Baudinet took the lead.]
Death and legacy
Baudinet died in the Royal Hobart Hospital
The Royal Hobart Hospital is a public hospital in the Hobart CBD, Tasmania, Australia. The hospital also functions as a teaching hospital in co-operation with the University of Tasmania. The hospital's research facilities are known as the Roy ...
in 1945 from cancer leaving £7,400. She had been a member of the Returned Army Sisters' Association and that year she was its president.[ She left 10 acres of land and her assets to the Sunshine Association. Assisted by her legacy the Tasmanian Sunshine Centre opened on the land she had given at the beachside Hobart suburb of ]Howrah
Howrah (; ; alternatively spelled as Haora) is a city in the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. Howrah is located on the western bank of the Hooghly River, opposite to its twin city of Kolkata. Administratively ...
in 1951.[
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References
External links
Biography at ADB
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1883 births
1945 deaths
People from Victoria (state)
Australian nurses
Australian women nurses
Australian philanthropists
Charity fundraisers (people)
People educated at The Friends' School, Hobart