Background
Ada Jane Low was born in Bexley, Kent, England, and arrived in New South Wales as a two-year-old in 1857.
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Ada Watson
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Career
Two further siblings, Adelaide and Agnes, were born in New South Wales in the years that followed the family"s arrival and settling in Bathurst. Low and Watson were wed in 1889, shortly before he was elected to the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council. She was not involved in her husband"s political career, except to support his decision to resign as Labor leader in 1907.
She may also have been influential in her husband"s later estrangement from the Australian Labor Party.
Owing partly to her husband"s brief term as Prime Minister, Ada Watson is possibly the least well-known of prime ministerial spouses in Australia. Number photograph of her has ever been foundation
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Political Party
The Australian Labor Party