Marjorie Gordon Smart

Marjorie Gordon became Mrs E.K. Smart AM (20 May 1911 – 23 May 1982) was a British, Canadian and Australian diplomat and a founding college principal in Australia.

Life Smart was born in Winnipeg in 1911. Her father was known as the novelist Ralph Connor, but his real name was the Reverend Dr Charles Gordon. His day job was in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, which he would, in time, lead. Her mother was Helen (born King). Her elder brother was J. King Gordon,

Smart became a civil servant and the secretary to Britain's High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald until 1946. She then worked for Sir Gordon Munro who worked for the British Treasury. She converted to the Canadian diplomatic service in 1947 after the rules were changed and women were allowed to take the necessary exams. She was sent to work in New York where she was a Canadian vice-consul and a press officer for the Canadian delegation to the United Nations. She resigned that post when she became the second wife of the Australian consul-general, Edward Kenneth Smart DSO, in 1953.

Death and legacy Smart died in 1982 in Winnipeg.