she would never be able to have children, but in fact went on to give birth to twelve – the first born when she was 19 and the last born when she was 36. Her subsequent pregnancies went relatively smoothly, with the exception of a third miscarriage in 1926; she had to carry the dead foetus for three months before it could be removed. All but one of her children survived to adulthood, and all those who did out-lived her. Her son Garnet, born in 1924, died from meningitis at the age of 10 months. Another son, Barry, was born with achondroplasia. Gerald Desmond (1916–2000) Sheila Mary Norma (1918–2000) Enid Veronica (1919–1988) – married army officer Maurice Austin Kathleen Patricia (1920–2012) Moira Rose (1922–1991) Kevin Orchard (1923–2000) Garnet Philip Burnell (1924–1925) Brendan Aloysius (1927–2010) Barry Joseph (1928–2015) Rosemary Josephine (1929–1999) Peter Julian (1931–2021) Janice Mary (1933–2020) Publications Autobiographical works See also List of the first women holders of political offices in Oceania References Further reading Biographies Journal articles External links Listen to a recorded version of Enid Lyon's maiden speech in Parliament and read more about it on australianscreen online. This recording was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2011. 1897 births 1981 deaths Members of the Cabinet of Australia Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia United Australia Party members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Darwin Members of the Australian House of Representatives Spouses of prime ministers of Australia Australian memoirists Australian schoolteachers Dames of the Order of Australia Australian Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Australian politicians awarded knighthoods Australian Roman Catholics Former Methodists Women members of the Australian House of Representatives People from Smithton, Tasmania Converts to Roman Catholicism from Methodism Women government ministers of Australia Australian women memoirists 20th-century Australian politicians 19th-century Australian women 20th-century Australian women politicians Australian monarchists Australian people of English descent 20th-century memoirists