Dame Mabel Brookes, DBE was an Australian community worker, activist, socialite, writer, historian, memoirist and humanitarian. Born Mabel Balcombe Emmerton at Raveloe, South Yarra, Victoria in 1890, her best-known service was as president of the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1923 to 1970, where she presided over the addition of three new wings within ten years.
- Occupation
- writer, socialite, charity worker, cashier
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Born
- June 15, 1890
- Died
- April 30, 1975
