Mary Hughes

Mary Hughes
Hughes, c. 1910
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia
In office
27 October 1915 – 9 February 1923
Preceded byDame Mary Cook
Succeeded byViscountess Bruce
Personal details
Born
Mary Ethel Campbell

6 June 1874
near Wellington, New South Wales
Died2 April 1958 (aged 83)
Double Bay, New South Wales
Resting placeMacquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium
SpouseBilly Hughes
ChildrenHelen Hughes (1915–1937)

Dame Mary Ethel Hughes GBE (née Campbell; 6 June 1874 – 2 April 1958) was the second wife of Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923. She was the daughter of a well-to-do grazier, and grew up in country New South Wales. She married Hughes in 1911, when she was 37 and he was 48; their only daughter was born in 1915.