Susan Renouf

Susan, Lady Renouf is an Australian socialite.

Born Susan Rossiter in 1940 (daughter of Sir John Frederick Rossiter [http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1410] and Joan Stewart), she was married three times:
* to Andrew Peacock, prominent Australian politician (in 1963)
* to Robert Sangster, British gambling tycoon
* to Frank Renouf, New Zealand financier

In 1968, she was the focus of a minor political scandal in Australia when she appeared in a TV advertising campaign for bed sheets whileher (then) husband, Andrew Peacock, was a Minister in the Australian Federal Government.

She played a tennis match at Kooyong on 4 January 1975 against Bobby Riggs in “a fun spectacular for charity” where the match finished at 3 all. Susan was an A grade competition player who had been runner-up in the Franklin Cup social competition at Portsea.

In 1988, her third husband, Sir Frank Renouf, outlaid what was at the time the highest-ever price for a Sydney home, when he bought themansion "Paradis sur Mer" in Wolseley Crescent at Point Piper, where the vendor washer second husband, Robert Sangster. The house was eventually razed.

External links

*http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/sport/virtual/photos/photo4.html
*http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21568430-421,00.html