Coral Lansbury
| Coral Lansbury | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Coral Magnolia Lansbury 14 October 1929 Melbourne, Australia |
| Died | 3 April 1991 (aged 61) Philadelphia, United States |
| Spouse(s) |
George Edwards (m. 1953; d. 1953) Bruce Turnbull (m. 1955; div. 1963; 1 child) John Salmon (m. 1963; div. 1969) |
| Children | Malcolm Turnbull |
Coral Magnolia Lansbury (14 October 1929 – 3 April 1991) was an Australian-born writer and academic. She is the mother of Malcolm Turnbull, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.
Coral Magnolia Lansbury was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to a British mother, May (née Morle), and an Australian-born father, Oscar Vincent Stephen Lansbury. Her parents were stage actors in London. She was a distant cousin of the British film and television actor Angela Lansbury.
Lansbury attended North Sydney Girls High School and sat the NSW Leaving Certificate in 1945, entering the University of Sydney in 1947 as an unmatriculated student. In 1948 she won the Henry Lawson poetry prize for Krubi of the Illawarra. She studied Arts (history, anthropology and archaeology) and achieved first-class honours but was ineligible to graduate as she had not matriculated. Her student card is in the University of Sydney Archives. Lansbury was the recipient of the George Arnold Wood Memorial Prize (aeq) and the Maud Stiles Memorial Prize (aeq). The George Arnold Wood Memorial Prize was awarded annually for proficiency in History II. The Maud Stiles Memorial Prize was awarded annually to a woman student for proficiency in History II.
At 19, she started work at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Lansbury's father worked in the early radio industry in Australia with the Australian Broadcasting Commission as it was then known. He got her a part in a radio drama.
Her first marriage was to radio producer George Edwards, her godfather and friend of her father, on 20 February 1953. Edwards had enjoyed some fame as Dad in Dad and Dave from Snake Gully. Lansbury was his fourth wife. The next day, he was admitted to hospital with pneumonia and on 28 August 1953 (six months later) George Edwards died. She had a "whirlwind romance" with Bruce Turnbull who became her second husband, and in 1954, she gave birth to her son Malcolm Turnbull prematurely. She worked for the ABC into the 1960s but as television supplanted radio drama she turned more to academic interests.
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