Edith Latham Kernot

Edith Latham Kernot MBE (4 December 1877 – 19 October 1967) was an Australian community worker in Geelong. She supported the District nurses, the local Red Cross and Geelong Hospital. She was vice-president of Geelong Hospital and she sat on the Charities Board of Victoria.

Life Kernot was born in Geelong in 1877. She had an elder sibling and six younger ones who survived childhood. She showed an early talent for the violin and she would travel each week for lessons. She gave a performance as a teenager for the Ladies Benevolent Society and throughout her life she own and played her Duke violin. Her husband was Walter Charles Kernot who was a chemist. His uncle had founded a stationery / chemist business. Before she left in 1948 she was its president for three years.

She was vice-president of Geelong and District Hospital and in 1958 she became a Member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours for her public service. Kernot died in her home city of Geelong in 1967.

Private life She had three children including the golfer Edith Betty Kernot who became the Australian Ladies Golf champion. Her other daughter, May Latham married in 1936.