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Sir William Harrison Moore (1867-1935)

Sir William Harrison Moore was an academic and constitutional lawyer. Moore graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from King’s College Cambridge and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London. Moore was appointed Dean of the Law School at the University of Melbourne and implemented controversial changes regarding Roman law. He was appointed as an Australian delegate to the League in 1928 and reappointed in both 1929 and 1930. Moore played a significant role in Geneva through revising the rules of the Permanent International Court of Justice.[1] 

Ada Constance Duncan (1896 – 1970)

Ada Constance Duncan was a welfare activist and passionately involved in the peace movement. She was appointed as the Australian secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association in Japan, secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian League of Nations Union and eventually became secretary of the International Peace Campaign.[2] After the demise of the League of Nations, Duncan was appointed to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration as a welfare officer and helped organize the first UN appeal for children in 1948. 

Dorothy Gibson (1899 – 1978)

Miss Dorothy Gibson was an Australian Peace Activist, teacher and communist who was enthusiastically involved in new education. She was an executive-member of the Victorian Council Against War and Fascism and was Victorian assistant to the secretary of the International Peace Campaign.[3]

William Morris (Billy) Hughes (1862 – 1952)

Billy Hughes was Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 – 1923 and known as the ‘little digger’ throughout the Great War as he strongly advocated compulsory conscription. Prime Minister Hughes was successful in obtaining a seat for Australia at the peace table following the Great War and fought for war spoils in the form of reparations, territory and against racial equality in League discussions.[4]



[1] Loretta Re, “Moore, Sir William Harrison (1867 – 1935)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moore-sir-william-harrison-7645, accessed online 2 October 2015.

[2] Diane Langmore, “Duncan Ada Constance (1896 – 1970)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/duncan-ada-constance-10061, accessed online 2 October 2015.

[3] Nita Murray-Smith, “Gibson, Dorothy (1899-1978)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gibson-dorothy-10297, accessed online 2 October 2015.

[4] Hudson, Australia and the League of Nations (Paramatta: Sydney University Press, 1980), 17.