Dorothy Goble

Dorothy Ada Goble, née Taylor (11 March 1910 – 22 October 1990) was an Australian politician.

She was born in North Richmond to clerk Arthur Robert Taylor and Ada Elizabeth Deumer. She attended local state schools and University High School, working as a secretary there from her graduation in 1928 until her marriage on 4 October 1934 to Kenneth George Goble, a stationery manufacturer. She had two children, and was a housewife thereafter, although she became a co-director of her husband's firm in 1962 and was president of the Hartwell branch of the Australian Comforts Fund during World War II. A member of the Liberal Party, she held office in the Hartwell (1946–52) and Blackburn (1953–67) branches and was vice-chairman of the Victorian women's section from 1962 to 1967, serving on the state executive from 1965 to 1967. In 1967 she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Mitcham, the first woman in the chamber since Fanny Brownbill's death in 1948. She served as a backbencher until her retirement in 1976, after which she resumed her position in the family firm. Goble died in 1990.^[1]

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