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Margaret Mary Damer Dawson OBE (1873–1920) was a prominent anti-vivisectionist and philanthropist who co-founded the first British women's police service.〔Mary S. Allen (1925) ''The Pioneer Policewoman'', London:Chatto and Windus, p.135〕〔''The Policewoman's Review'', VII, 8th December 1933〕 ==Life== Dawson was born in 12 June 1873 to a rich family in Hove. Her father died and her mother remarried to become Lady Walsingham.〔(Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 19, Page 329 )〕 Her step-father was Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham. Margaret had a private income. She studied music with the Austrian pianist Benno Schoenberger at the London Academy of Music. Dawson got involved in anti-vivisection and other good causes and she founded a home for foundlings. She was awarded silver medals by Finland and Denmark for her campaigning work for animal rights.〔
Margaret was Honorary Secretary of the International Anti-Vivisection Council set up in 1908 by Lizzy Lind af Hageby, and they organized between them the International Anti-Vivisection and Animal Protection Congress in London in July 1909. As Honorary Organizing Secretary of the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society. This organisation campaigned against obvious cruelty and the socially acceptable circus performing animals and the slaughter of animals for meat.〔(The Newly Restored Bird Bath Memorial near the Thomas Carlyle Statue ), Hilda Kean, hildakean.com〕
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