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About Bettina Gorton
Bettina Edith Gorton, Lady Gorton was an American-born Australian academic who was best known as the first wife of John Gorton, the 19th Prime Minister of Australia. She was born in Portland, Maine, and met her husband while studying in France. They married in 1935. She developed an interest in South-East Asian culture relatively late in life, learning to speak Malay and Javanese and completing her first university degree at the age of 50. She was involved with a long-running Australian National University project to compile a Malay–English dictionary, although she curtailed her involvement during her husband's prime ministership (1968–1971).
Everything about Bettina Gorton →- Occupation
- lexicographer, linguist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 23, 1915
- Died
- October 2, 1983