Julian Barbara Waugh

Waugh was born in 1857 in the Sydney suburb of Balmain. Her parents were Sophia Usher (née Nail) and Ewen Wallace Cameron. Her parents had been born in Mauritius and France respectively. Her father was a merchant and had tried to enter parliament but he was narrowly beaten.^[1] She spent part of her childhood in France.^[2]

In 1879 she married John Waugh who was the father of their two children and in time he was a bank manager. They lived in Parramatta and she became president in the local croquet club.^[2] Her husband became an alderman in Parramatta in 1904 and in 1909–10 she became the Lady Mayoress as he became the Mayor.^[3]

She became the President of the Travelling Kitchen Fund in New South Wales. Seven kitchens were funded by the group. In December 1914 she presented one to Lieutenant Colonel Cox CB outside Sydney Town Hall.^[4]

She was a strong supporter of the war effort and she encouraged Australians to agree to conscription.^[2]

In 1928 the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association organised its first conference in Hawaii and Waugh was a delegate.^[5]

She became a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1934. Waugh died in the Sydney suburb of Mosman in 1938.^[5]

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