Adelaide Doughty

Dame Adelaide Baillieu Doughty (née Shackell; 2 December 1908 – 12 August 1986) was an Australian-British political figure.

Biography Adelaide Baillieu Shackell was born in Malvern, Victoria, Australia, the second of four children of Edward Herbert Shackell (1869–1932), a businessman and accountant, and his wife, Amy Baillieu (1870–1966). She was initially educated at home, and then at St. Catherine's School, Melbourne from the age of twelve. She was accepted by Melbourne University, but on the suggestion of her cousin Clive Latham Baillieu, travelled to England where she entered St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1928, graduating with a degree in Modern Greats. While at university she met lawyer Charles Addison Doughty. They were soon engaged and were married on 29 July 1931 They had a son and a daughter. and a Dame Commander in the 1971 New Year Honours.

Doughty also served as a governor of the Skinners' Company's School for Girls in 1951, as director of the National Institute for Housecraft from 1966, and was a member of the Grand Council of the Cancer Research Campaign from 1974.

She died at her home in Onslow Square, Kensington, London, on 12 August 1986.