1. Flora Reid eventually became engaged to another politician, George Reid.
11 Facts About Flora Reid
2.
Flora Brumby and George Reid married on 5 November 1891 at the Presbyterian manse in Wangaratta, Victoria.
3.
George Flora Reid told his journalist friend James Hogue that he did not want it published in the daily newspapers and that he wished to "settle down as quietly as possible"; he implied that it had occurred recently rather than nine months previously.
4.
Flora Reid's wife's maiden name was given as "Bromby" on the marriage certificate, and George Reid incorrectly told Hogue that she was a relative of clergymen Charles and John Edward Bromby.
5.
Flora Reid was a vice-president of the Sydney Women's Electoral League in 1899, along with Jane Barton.
6.
Flora Reid's husband was prime minister from 1904 to 1905.
7.
Flora Reid accompanied her husband to London in 1910 on his appointment as the first Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
8.
Flora Reid hosted a reception for Theodore Roosevelt when he attended the funeral of King Edward VII, and put on weekly gatherings for "the wives and daughters of those [her husband] wished to influence".
9.
Sir George Flora Reid died in 1918, aged 73, and was buried in London.
10.
Flora Reid left the whole of his estate to his "beloved wife as a slight recognition of her devoted love and help during the whole of our married life".
11.
Dame Flora Reid died on 1 September 1950 in Rose Bay, New South Wales, aged 82.