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  • Thumbnail for Margaret Damer Dawson
    Margaret Mary Damer Dawson OBE (12 June 1873 – 18 May 1920) was an English animal rights activist, anti-vivisectionist and philanthropist who co-founded...
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  • England. William Henry Dawson, Viscount Carlow (b. 1712, d. 22 August 1779, m. Mary Damer, daughter of Joseph Damer) Joseph D'Amory/Damer (m. 1570 to Jane St...
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    joined Nina Boyle's Women Police Volunteers. This was taken over by Margaret Damer Dawson in 1915 and renamed the Women Police Service (WPS), with Allen as...
    16 KB (1,954 words) - 00:42, 2 August 2024
  • Boyle and Margaret Damer Dawson met when Damer Dawson was working for the Criminal Law Amendment Committee in 1914. Both Boyle and Damer Dawson had observed...
    14 KB (1,760 words) - 15:07, 19 June 2024
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    staffed by volunteers such as Smith. It was founded by Nina Boyle and Margaret Damer Dawson, who fell out over its anti-prostitution role in London and elsewhere...
    10 KB (1,033 words) - 22:05, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexandrina Dawson-Damer, Countess of Portarlington
    Alexandrina Octavia Maria Dawson-Damer, Countess of Portarlington (née Lady Alexandrina Octavia Maria Vane; 29 July 1823 – 15 January 1874) was an Irish...
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    Volunteers, later known as the Women's Police Service - established by Margaret Damer Dawson and Nina Boyle in 1914. They had joined forces after seeing the...
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    Beauchamp Seymour Dawson-Damer (who married Margaret Stirling Macleod). His father was the only son of the Hon. George Dawson-Damer (a younger son of...
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  • Thumbnail for Lionel Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington
    Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington DL (7 April 1832 – 17 December 1892), known as Lionel Dawson-Damer until 1889, was a British...
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    Gerald Scarfe now lives there. The house has a plaque to commemorate Margaret Damer Dawson, who was an early head of the women's police service. No.10: David...
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  • described in the first volume of Dawson's autobiography A Clown Too Many. Dawson was married to his first wife, Margaret, from 25 June 1960 until her death...
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    demonstrations and Lambert joined the organisation started by Nina Boyle and Margaret Damer Dawson and called the Women's Police Service. She was directed by the WPS...
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  • Frances Goldingham, founders of the Women's Police Service with Margaret Damer Dawson. Mary Allen referred to her as "my little old lady" and Isobel Goldingham...
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    half-brother. He married his third wife, Agnes Dawson, in 1914. Her daughter was Margaret Damer Dawson. On 30 August 1888, Walsingham had a remarkable...
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    Dame Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE, HonFBA, FRSA (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933), is an English journalist, television presenter and...
    27 KB (2,453 words) - 02:19, 3 August 2024
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    When the request was officially refused, Boyle, together with Margaret Damer Dawson, a wealthy philanthropist and herself a campaigner for women's rights...
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  • Thumbnail for Lizzy Lind af Hageby
    gradualism in the fight to end vivisection. In 1911 she was living with Margaret Damer Dawson Commandant & founder of the Women Police Service who also helped...
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  • When the request was officially refused, Boyle, together with Margaret Damer Dawson, a wealthy philanthropist and herself a campaigner for women's rights...
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    Georgiana Augusta Charlotte Caroline Dawson-Damer, daughter of George Lionel Dawson-Damer and sister of Lionel Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington. He was...
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  • Thumbnail for Margaret Beazley
    Margaret Joan Beazley, AC, KC, (born 23 July 1951) is an Australian jurist who is the 39th and current governor of New South Wales, serving since 2 May...
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