Green venture partners p&l travers biography

Childhood and Early Life

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Green venture partners p&l travers biography

Travers, the author who created Mary Poppins, was born Helen Lyndon Goff on the 9 August in Maryborough, Australia. Her father, Robert Goff, was London-born of Irish descent and was a manager with the Australian Joint Stock Bank.

Her mother, Margaret Moorehead,  was the sister of the Australian politician Boyd Dunlop Moorehead who at one time was the Premier of Queensland, Australia. She had two younger sisters.

Travers’ father suffered from alcoholism which affected his career, and he was demoted from being a manager to a clerical position.  The family moved from a large comfortable home in Maryborough, Queensland, to Brisbane, Queensland, Ipswich, Queensland and Allora ().

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In , her father died of influenza in Allora and the family then relocated to Bowral in New South Wales. After the death of her husband, Moorhead made a suicide attempt by trying to drown herself.

Education

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Travers was a pupil