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Una Arnold Fraser (nee Woolf) was born to Louis and Amy Woolf on 10 July 1902 in Albany, Western Australia. Louis Woolf was an accountant and an active campaigner for Australian Federation in Perth in the late 1890s. He stood - unsuccessfully - for the first Federal Senate in the elections of March 1901. Una was the younger of two daughters (her sister Enid was born in 1896), both of whom were educated privately at home. She was particularly adept at French and music, and enjoyed acting in repertory theatre. In 1923, at a party on the British battleship 'Repulse', Una met John Neville Fraser, a lawyer and grazier from New South Wales. Una and Neville married at St Marks Church of England, Darling Point, Sydney in 1926. They settled at Balpool, near Deniliquin, New South Wales, and in 1943 moved to 'Nareen' near Coleraine in western Victoria. They had two children: Lorraine, born in 1927, and John Malcolm, born in 1930. After Neville's death in 1962, Una Fraser lived in South Yarra, Victoria. She was actively involved in the Alexandra Club, a primarily social club for women (she was President from 1966-68) and was a benefactor of the National Gallery of Victoria. She was also a keen art collector, acquiring works by Arthur Boyd, Sir Arthur Streeton and Rupert Bunny. She died in Melbourne, Victoria on 16 May 1998. Una Fraser is survived by two children - Lorraine Whiting (a modernist painter) and Malcolm Fraser (Australia's twenty-second Prime Minister) - four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. |
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