Sir Norman Everard Brookes was an Australian tennis player. During his career he won three Grand Slam singles titles;Wimbledon in 1907 and 1914 and the Australasian Championships in 1911. Brookes was part of the Australasian Davis Cup team that won the title on five occasions. The Australian Open men's singles trophy,the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup,is named in his honour. After his active playing career Brookes became president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia.
The Australian Father of the Year Award is presented annually to "a distinguished father who has demonstrated support,guidance and love to his children or other children through his working role or family life."
The Henty brothers were a family of seven brothers,sons of Thomas Henty,who are generally considered to be the first Europeans to establish a permanent agricultural settlement in Victoria,Australia. The brothers were:
Alfred Deakin Brookes was the first head of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service,the intelligence agency of the Australian government that collects foreign intelligence. He was appointed in 1952 by Robert Menzies the prime minister at that time.
Alan Geoffrey Serle,known as Geoff,was an Australian historian,who is best known for his books on the colony of Victoria;The Golden Age (1963) and The Rush to be Rich (1971) and his biographies of John Monash,John Curtin and Robin Boyd.
Charles Henry Chomley was an Australian farmer,barrister,writer,and journalist. His non-fiction and fiction works alike reflected his strong interest and involvement in politics and law.
St Andrew's Brighton is the oldest continuous Anglican church in Victoria,Australia. St Andrew's is the Anglican parish church of the beachside suburb of Brighton,Melbourne.
The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors,established in Melbourne,Victoria in 1902,is the oldest surviving women's art group in Australia.
Norman Macgeorge was an artist and art critic in the colony and State of Victoria.
Thomas Henry Brooker was a politician in colonial South Australia. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1890 to 1905,representing West Torrens (1890–1902) and Port Adelaide (1902–1905). He was Minister for Education and Minister for Industry in the Jenkins ministry from May 1901 to March 1902.
Harold Eric Brookes was an Australian businessman and sportsman.
James Lyall was a Presbyterian minister in the early days of Adelaide,South Australia.
George Richard Griffiths was an English-born merchant and banker,who spent much of his life in the then Colony of New South Wales.
Janet Marion Clarke was an Australian socialite and philanthropist. She was known to the general public as Lady Clarke,a title which she assumed after her husband's elevation to the baronetage in 1882.
Sir Harold Gengoult Smith was an Australian medical practitioner who served as Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1931 to 1934.
Ivy Deakin Brookes was an Australian community worker and activist. She held leadership positions across a wide range of organisations in Victoria. She served as president of the National Council of Women of Australia from 1948 to 1953.
Peter Hamilton Bailey was a former Australian public servant and academic. He served as an advisor to seven Australian prime ministers,and later became a professor in human rights law at the Australian National University (ANU).
Sir Edward Fancourt Mitchell KCMG KC was an Australian barrister who was one of the leading experts in Australian constitutional law in the early part of the 20th century.
Jessie Deakin Clarke,was an Australian social worker,welfare officer,and refugee advocate.
William Brookes was a gold miner,pastoralist and paper manufacturer,included in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
