Australian Dictionary of Biography

• Jessie Mary Lillingston

18 April, 1889
Ranchi, Bihar, India

2 July, 1970 (aged 81)
Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Street, Kenneth Whistler (husband)
• Fingleton, John Henry (son-in-law)
• Street, Philip Whistler (father-in-law)
• Ogilvie, Edward David (grandfather)
• Curtin, John (friend)
• Keighley, Erna Laura (friend)
• Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (friend)
• Bennett, Emily (colleague)
• Gullett, Lucy Edith (colleague)
• Swain, Edith Muriel Maitland (colleague)
• Jollie Smith, Christian (colleague)
• Ryan, Mary Margaret (colleague)
• Newson, Vivienne Elizabeth (colleague)
• Healy, James (colleague)
• Greenwood, Irene Adelaide (colleague)
• Gibbs, Pearl Mary (colleague)
• Norris, Ada May (colleague)
• Wright, Thomas (colleague)
• Ravenscroft, Mona Rachael (colleague)
• Nowland, Evelyn Grace Ione (acquaintance)
• McCready, Georgina (acquaintance)
• Burke, Phyllis Le Cappelaine (acquaintance)
• Rich, Ruby Sophia (associate)
• Byles, Marie Beuzeville (associate)
• Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel (mentor)
• Simpson, Nellie (collaborator)
• Einfeld, Sydney David (related entry)

• Wycombe Abbey School (Buckinghamshire, UK) (student, 1904-1906)
• University of Sydney (student, 1908-1910)
• Women's College (University of Sydney) (student, 1908-1908)

• community worker (1914-1916) Overseas
• feminist (1920-1950) New South Wales, Australia
• human rights activist (1920-1950) New South Wales, Australia
• pacifist (1948-1950) New South Wales, Australia
• feminist (1950-1960) Overseas
• human rights activist (1950-1960) Overseas
• pacifist (1950-1960) Overseas
• autobiographer/memoirist (1960-1966) New South Wales, Australia
• feminist (1960-1970) New South Wales, Australia
• human rights activist (1960-1970) New South Wales, Australia
• pacifist (1960-1970) New South Wales, Australia

• Victorian Honour Roll of Women (inductee, 2001)

• Feminist Club (NSW) (committee member, ?-?)
• Women's Club (Sydney) (member, ?-?)
• Feminist Club (NSW) (president, 1929-?)

• Australian Women's Conference for Victory in War and Victory in Peace (1943) (convenor)
• referendum on Indigenous rights (1967) (activist supporting it)

• Jessie Street Gardens (Sydney) (eponym)
• Jessie Street National Women's Library (eponym)
• Jessie Street Trust (eponym)

• Australian Peace Council (NSW) (president, ?-?)
• Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council (member, ?-1950)
• Equal Rights International (vice-chair, ?-?)
• International Peace Campaign (NSW) (member, ?-?)
• League of Nations Union (NSW) (member, ?-?)
• Racial Hygiene Association of New South Wales (member, ?-?)
• World Peace Council (committee member, ?-?)
• New South Wales Women's Hockey Association (member, 1908-?)
• Sydney University Women's Sports Association (member, 1910-?)
• Social Hygiene Association (NSW) (member, 1916-?)
• National Council of Women (NSW) (secretary, 1920-?)
• Women's College (University of Sydney) (council member, 1920-1950)
• House Service Co (NSW) (founder, 1923-?)
• Sydney University Women's Sports Association (president, 1925-1926)
• United Association of Women (president, 1930-1950)
• Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR (Sydney) (president, 1939-?)
• Russian Medical Aid and Comforts Committee (NSW) (chair, 1941-1945)
• Aliens Classification and Advisory Committee (member, 1944-?)
• Australia Russia Friendship Society (NSW) (president, 1946-?)

• ALP (NSW) (member, 1939-1949)