Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding
British noble
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| Intro | British noble | ||||||
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | ||||||
| was | Activist Animal rights advocate Noble | ||||||
| Work field | Activism Royals | ||||||
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| Birth | 22 March 1908 | ||||||
| Death | 20 November 1993 (aged 85 years) | ||||||
| Star sign | Aries | ||||||
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Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding (née Albino; other married name Whiting; 22 March 1908 – 20 November 1993) was an English animal rights activist. Like her second husband Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, she was a vegetarian, an anti-vivisectionist, spiritualist and Theosophist.
She was well known in Britain for her work as an animal rights campaigner. Dowding used her prominent social position to advance animal welfare without seeking any personal gain or reward. She hosted regular Sunday lunch parties introducing influential people to vegetarian food, and her house was always a sanctuary for animals in need. In 1959, she founded Beauty Without Cruelty (BWC) to highlight the suffering of animals. She won several awards from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).
Dowding died in 1993 and her ashes were buried with her second husband in Westminster Abbey.
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- The Psychic Life of Muriel, the Lady Dowding: An Autobiography (1980) [Foreword by Victor Goddard]