Audrey Cummins Morphett

Audrey Cummins Morphett (27 May 1902 – 8 October 1983) was an Australian woman who was a community worker, involved in many charitable organisations, and a historian who worked closely with her father George Cummins Morphett.

During World War II she worked as the senior inspector of women workers at a munitions factor in Salisbury which was then the largest in Australia.

Morphett attended school at the Geelong Church of England Girls' Grammar School and completed her studies there between 1918 and 1920. While living there Morphett volunteered for a number of organisations, including the Australian Red Cross, Girl Guides (for South Australia and the Northern Territory) and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In 1927 she also joined the Ladies’ Harbour Lights Guild and became its president and a major fundraiser for them and this involvement would continue until at least the 1950s.

From 1933 until 1955 Morphett also offered significant help to her father in preparing his books and other publications, primarily relating to South Australian history, for publication.

Morphett would often travel overseas or to the Northern Territory and other parts of northern Australia during the winter months. Instead Morphett became the senior inspector of women workers at a munitions factor in Salisbury and, later, trained in explosives manufacture in Melbourne. She resigned in late 1943.

After the war Morphett continued her involvement in various charities and, after the death of her parents, she was entitled to a third of the income from her parents estate and moved into a house at Unley Park.

She died on 8 October 1983.