BLACK, Judith

Judith Black, former Councillor for Hectorville Ward, City of Campbelltown.

Daughter of Dr. Eustace Couper Black, who graduated in medicine at the University of Adelaide in 1910. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. On his return to Australia he was employed as a lecturer at the University of Adelaide and anaesthetist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Adelaide Children's Hospital. He participated in the Board for Anthropological Research expeditions in 1936, 1937 and 1939. In subsequent decades he recorded numerous Australian Aboriginal sites and carried out detailed surveys of Aboriginal sacred trees.

Grand-daughter of John McConnell Black, born in 1855 at Wigtown, Scotland. He emigrated to South Australia in 1877 with his widowed mother, sister and brother. Unable to find work in Adelaide he tried wheat-farming in salt-bush country at Baroota, where his interest in arid-zone flora and Aboriginal languages was aroused. In 1883 he returned to Adelaide and worked as a newspaper reporter. After publishing three papers on Aboriginal vocabularies, he turned his attention to botany and authored the "Flora of South Australia" (1922-1929). He is buried in the Magill cemetery.