Frances Margaret Cheadle McGuire

Frances Margaret Cheadle McGuire was born in Glenelg, South Australia, the daughter of a wealthy Protestant family of Scottish-English parentage. She was tutored at home and traveled to Europe during her childhood. She earned a Science degree from Adelaide University. She worked as a biochemist at Adelaide University, researching insulin. In 1927 she married, converted to Catholicism, and moved to England. In the early 1930s she returned to Adelaide, although she and her husband continued to travel to Europe and the United States. Her husband, Paul McGuire was the Australian ambassador to Ireland in 1953 and ambassador to Italy from 1957-1959. Frances McGuire was the author of ten books, including an autobiography of the first 14 years of her life, a detective novel, and two officially commissioned Australian Navy histories.