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3 unusual facts about Mary Herring


Mary Herring

In 1918 she had met Edmund Herring, then a young Australian captain in the British Army on leave from the Macedonian front of the Great War, and they were married on 6 April 1922 at Toorak Presbyterian Church.

Herring and Vera Scantlebury Brown had both attended Toorak College and were medical students at the University of Melbourne together.

Born the eldest of four children of Sir Thomas Ranken Lyle, a mathematical physicist, and his wife, Frances Isobel Clare Millear, she attended Toorak College between 1906 and 1912, and she excelled both academically and at sport.



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