Early Life
Quentin Alice Louise Strachan was born in 1942 in Brisbane, the second of four daughters. Her parents, Norman Walter Strachan and Edwina Naida Wetzel, had taken up residence at Ilfracombe in 1940. Quentin—along with all of the children in her family—was home-schooled, rather than attending the local State school. Her family left the area in 1949, initially relocating to Launceston, Tasmania, where they remained for approximately a year. Returning to Queensland, her family moved to Belmont. It was when living in Belmont that she attended the Camp Hill State School, and it was there that she first met her future husband, Michael Bryce.
During the period that they were residing in Belmont, her father moved to Tenterfield, New South Wales. In 1956 Quentin Strachan started attending boarding school at Moreton Bay College, Wynnum, Brisbane. Upon graduating from high school she undertook studies at the University of Queensland, initially enrolling in a social work and arts degree, but transferring to Law in her third year at the institution. She graduated from the university with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962 and Bachelor of Laws in 1965.
She married Michael Bryce on 12 December 1964. In 1965, she was one of the first women to be admitted to the Queensland bar, although she never practised professionally.
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