Dame Ivy Evelyn Annie Wedgwood, DBE (née Drury; 18 October 1896 – 24 July 1975) was an Australian Senator for Victoria.Ivy Evelyn Annie Drury was born to Albert Drury, a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth (née Evans) in Malvern, Melbourne. In Melbourne, she worked as a clerk and later an accountant with a firm of importers.She was the first female Senator to represent Victoria. During her 21-year term, which ran from 1950 to 1971, in 1968 she became the first woman to chair a Senate Committee.
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