Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, Matriarch of Journalism Family, Dies at 103

[joeybee12]

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, the 103-year-old mother of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, the widow of an Australian newspaper baron and one of her nation’s most noted philanthropists, died on Wednesday at her estate near Melbourne.

Mr. Murdoch announced her death.

Elisabeth Joy Greene was just a teenager, a shy, obedient girl of privilege, rail thin and fashionably coifed (though not long out of pigtails), when she was introduced to Keith Murdoch in 1927. He was 42, already a wealthy, famous and worldly newspaperman destined to become one of Australia’s foremost publishers. He had seen her debutante picture in a society magazine and had come courting.

Months later, in June 1928, they were married. She was 19. As a wedding present he gave her a sprawling estate at Langwarrin, near Australia’s southeast coast. They called it Cruden Farm, after the ancestral parish of his Scottish forebears, and it became the seat of Murdoch family life for generations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/business/media/dame-elisabeth-murdoch-matriarch-of-journalism-family-dies-at-103.html?_r=0

I would have included in the headline that she spawned one of the most evil people on this planet.

[Melinda]

1. My mother taught that if you can't say something nice, say nothing at all.

Screw that.

Does this mean that her baby boy could potentially still be causing mayhem and mischief for another 25 years? Worst News Ail Day!!!

[joeybee12]

2. The fact that she lived to 103 doesn't make her nice or even good

or even not evil...she must have been a piece of work to produce little Rupert.

[russspeakeasy]

3. I wish I could have read this on the internet 85 years ago.