Lucy Margaret Grounds (11 September 1908 – October 1987) was an Australian politician, who, from 1951 to 1958, was a member of the

Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two Chambers of parliament, chambers of the Parliament, the other being the Tasmanian House of Assembly, House of Assembly. Both ho ...

. She belonged to the

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Biography

Lucy Grounds was born in Glenorchy, a suburb of

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, Australia. In 1951, she was elected to the

, as the

member for Launceston, following the death of her husband

Arthur Grounds Arthur Edwin Ernest Grounds (11 September 1898 – 29 July 1951) was an Australian politician. He was born in Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Moonee Ponds, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. In 1950 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council a ...

. She was the second woman to be elected to that position, and held the seat until she was defeated in 1958. Grounds died in

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in October 1987. She was posthumously inducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2005 for service to government and the community.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grounds, Lucy 1908 births 1987 deaths Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania 20th-century Australian politicians Women members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian women politicians Tasmanian politicians Politicians from Hobart