Dame Beryl Edith Beaurepaire, AC, DBE (née Bedggood; 24 September 1923 – 24 October 2018) was an Australian political activist, feminist and philanthropist.
She was Vice-President of the Citizens Welfare Service Victoria from 1970 to 1986 and Chairman of the Board of Management of Fintona Girls School from 1973 to 1987.
[4] In 1999, when the CEDAW was supplemented by an Optional Protocol to create a mechanism allowing individual claims of violations to be made to the CEDAW Committee, and a procedure enabling the committee to initiate inquiries into situations of grave or systematic violations of women's rights, Dame Beryl publicly opposed the Government's decision not to sign or ratify the Protocol.
[4] She was Patron to a number of community organisations including Children First Foundation since 2000, Peninsula Hospice Service since 1999, Palliative Care (Vic.)
[3] In 1991 she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia;[9] and was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001[10] as well as being inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.