Grace Scobie

Grace Locke Scobie OBE (3 July 1876 – 2 June 1957) was an Australian factory inspector and women's rights activist.

Scobie campaigned for conscription in the two referendums, served as a council member of the National Association of New South Wales from 1917 to 1918, and was given the OBE in 1918.

[1] From the 1920s Scobie was a member of the National Council of Women of New South Wales, but in 1924 the political department for which she worked refused her permission to attend daytime meetings and she was forced to resign.

In this role she hosted a 1925 luncheon in honour of Kathleen M. Butler, who project managed the early years of the building of Sydney Harbour Bridge, and praised "the fact Dr. Bradfield dares to place a woman in a position of trust, where merit, capacity, and initiative counts".

During the 1930s she worked to reduce maternal and infant mortality, and was involved with the Australian Federation of Women Voters and the Feminist Club.