Karrakatta Club - Notable Members

Notable Members

• Katherine Broadhurst, daughter of Eliza and Charles Edward Broadhurst, was a suffragette in England and member of the St George Reading Circle.
• Lady Madeline Emma Loftus Onslow, wife of Sir Alexander Onslow, the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. Lady Onslow was the first president of the Karrakatta Club between 1894 and 1901.
• Edith Dircksey Cowan (MBE), was an Australian politician, social campaigner and the first woman elected to an Australian parliament. Cowan was the first secretary of the Karrakatta Club in 1894, subsequently becoming the Club's president between 1910 and 1912.
• Lady Margaret Elvire Forrest, wife of Sir John Forrest the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament. Lady Forrest was a founding member of the Karrakatta Club.
• Roberta Henrietta Margaritta Jull, the first woman to establish a medical practice in Western Australia and a founding member of the Western Australian Branch of British Medical Association.
• Marion Phoebe Holmes, daughter of Henry Diggins Holmes, the General Manager of the Bank of Western Australia. She was a key figure in the Ministering Children's League and the Western Australian Branch of The Girls' Friendly Society. Holmes was a founding member of the Karrakatta Club.
• Gertrude Ella Mead, the third woman doctor registered in Western Australia and an inaugural member of the Senate of the University of Western Australia. Mead was the vice-president of the Karrakatta Club between 1912 and 1914.