Edith Dircksey Brown
Married surname Cowan
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia
- Born
- 2 August 1861, Glengarry, Western Australia
- Died
- 9 June 1932, Subiaco, Western Australia
- Sex
- Female Female
- Father
- Kenneth Brown (pastoralist)
- Mother
- Mary Eliza Dircksey Wittenoom (teacher; daughter of The Revd John Burdett Wittenoom)
- Married James Cowan [2] [qv]; mother of Norman Walkinshaw Cowan [qv]
Parliamentary service
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia |
Career
- Nationalist.
- Social worker.
- Vice-Pres, Women's Service Guild 1909-17.
- Pres, WA National Council of Women 1913-21.
- First woman elected to an Aust parliament.
- OBE civ 1920.