Born in Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Walter Logie Forbes Murdoch KCMG
and Violet Catherine (Hughston) Murdoch
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Alexander King
— married
17 Dec 1929 in Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia
Mother of
Elizabeth (King) Millett and Simon King
Died
at age 95
in Mosman Park, Western Australia, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Sep 2013
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Biography
Catherine (Murdoch) King MBE is Notable.
Catherine Helen King MBE (née Murdoch) was an ABC broadcaster and community worker in Western Australia. She was the daughter of prominent Australian academic and essayist Sir Walter Murdoch.
Catherine was born 20 December 1904, in Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of Sir Walter Murdoch and Violet Hughston. [1]
She married Alexander "Alec" King[2] in the chapel at Perth College, subsequently having three children together.
... In 1942 King campaigned to start a radio program for children in Western Australia, and succeeded with the Kindergarten of the Air. She chose Margaret Graham to voice the program, which ran for many years.
On 4 September 1944, King's daily radio program was called the ABC Women's Session. In the late 1940s, King was joined by Erica Underwood.
The program was broadcast throughout WA and included music, live interviews and discussion on subjects from science and arts to cooking and parenting. It was based on the premise that women who were not in the paid workforce were thinking people with wide interests and concerns" (wikipedia excerpt).
In 1945, in collaboration with her husband, she authored a children's book Australian Holiday.
After 22 years of broadcasting she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. She was also a pioneer of the Save the Children Fund in WA[3]
Catherine Helen King MBE née Murdoch passed away 2 January 2000, in Mosman Park, Western Australia, Australia.
Sources
- ↑ Entered by Sir William Arbuthnot, Wednesday, September 11, 2013.
- ↑ Western Australia Department of Justice - Birth, Deaths and Marriages. Registration: 101759/1929 @ Perth; Catherine Helen Murdoch and Alexander King married in Mount Lawley in 1929; accessed 21 Feb 2024
- ↑ 190 Years of The West Australian. Catherine King. p. 25. West Australian Digital Paper. June 6, 2023
See also:
- Wikipedia: Catherine King (radio broadcaster)
- Wikidata: Item Q5052775, en:Wikipedia
- Gail Phillips, 'King, Catherine Helen (1904–2000)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/king-catherine-helen-31821/text39278, published online 2022, accessed online 21 February 2024.
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