Amy Grace Wheaton

Amy Grace Wheaton, (née Priest; 10 July 1898 – 12 February 1988) was a social worker educator, teacher, and feminist who was the president of the Australian Federation of Women Voters, co-founder and vice president of the South Australian Council of Social Service, and the first director of the South Australian Board of Social Studies.

Biography

Wheaton was born on 10 July 1898 in Gawler South, South Australia. She was the eldest daughter of Ernest Conrad William Priest and Emily Sarah Springbett Priest (née Carman) and great-granddaughter of Charles Thomas Hewett, with six siblings. She married bank officer Douglas Wheaton on 5 February 1925 in the Stow Memorial Congregational Church and they had three sons: Geoff, Neville and Roger.

She became the president of the Australian Federation of Women Voters from 1951–1954 to promote representation at every level of government with claims that "equal responsibility is more important than equal pay". Life member of the Australian Association of Social Workers