Susan Francis

Susan Francis-Wilkes (née Radford; 14 October 1877 – 22 April 1946) was an Australian midwife and women's rights activist.

Francis was born at Kelvin Grove in Brisbane to labourer William Radford and Selina, née Stapleton.

She ran for Waverley Municipal Council as a Lang Labor candidate in 1932, during which it emerged that she had been convicted in 1930 for witnessing false enrolment cards at the 1930 state election in Bondi.

[1] Francis was involved in efforts to establish the Hostel for Homeless Women and Girls as secretary of a Labor committee.

Well respected in the labour movement, her second marriage on 18 April 1936 to John Laurence Wilkes was preceded by a large function in her honour organised by a Labor committee; Jack Lang paid tribute to her in the annual party conference.