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- Arndt Father's Biography

- Miranda Devine

- Miranda Devine - Interview

- Daisy Cousins

- Independent Man

- Gary Orsum

- Augusto Zimmerman

- Tanveer Ahmed

Early life

Helen Lyndon Goff, known within her family as Lyndon, was born on 9 August 1899, in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. Her mother, Margaret Agnes Goff (née Morehead), was Australian and the niece of Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Premier of Queensland from 1888 to 1890. Her father, Travers Robert Goff, was born in Peckham, Surrey, England, in 1863 of parents who were both the children of Irish clergymen. He was unsuccessful as a bank manager owing to his alcoholism, and was eventually demoted to the position of bank clerk. The family lived in a large home with servants in Maryborough until Lyndon was five years old, when they relocated to Allora in 1905. Two years later, Travers Goff died at home at the age of 43.

Following her father's death, Goff, along with her mother and sisters, moved to Bowral, New South Wales, in 1907, living there until 1917. She boarded at the now-defunct Normanhurst School in Ashfield, a suburb of Sydney, during World War I.

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