Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding

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,[1] she was a vegetarian,[2] an anti-vivisectionist, spiritualist and Theosophist.[3][4]

Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding
Muriel Dowding, in 1953, in her robes for the coronation of Elizabeth II
Born
Muriel Albino

(1908-03-22)22 March 1908
London, England
Died20 November 1993(1993-11-20) (aged 85)
Hove, England
OccupationAnimal rights activist
Spouse(s)
Jack Maxwell Whiting
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(
m. 1935; died 1944)

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(
m. 1951; died 1970)
Children1

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.[2] In 1959, she founded Beauty Without Cruelty (BWC)[2] 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.[5]

Publications
  • The Psychic Life of Muriel, the Lady Dowding: An Autobiography (1980) [Foreword by Victor Goddard]
gollark: Anyone know where I can find a large dataset of privacy policies, for neural network training?
gollark: <@498244879894315027> Firstly, you could probably try and just use some existing packet capture tool for this. Secondly, seriously what are you doing?! I don't think trying to replay IP or Ethernet packets (whatever gets sent to the network card) has any chance of working to meddle with a higher-level service.
gollark: I suspect it's whatever you're doing to bptr after each broadcast. That looks dubious and the log says it's a "loadprohibited" error, which sounds like something memory.
gollark: I don't think this affects *me* very badly, since my configured disk encryption all runs in software without any weird TPM interaction, I don't use "secure" boot, and it seems like this would need physical access or unrealistically good timing, but it's still not very good.
gollark: I wonder if AMD's PSP has similar holes. In any case, they should really just not be sticking subprocessors with closed-source non-user-modifiable firmware and root access into every CPU.

References
  1. "Lord Dowding (1882-1970) Lady Dowding (1908-1993)". International Vegetarian Union. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  2. Piccioni, Joseph (1993-12-02). "Obituary: Muriel Dowding". The Independent. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  3. "Lady Dowding & the History of BWC". Vegetarian Women Online Magazine. Archived from the original on 2011-04-21. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  4. Kean, Hilda (1998). Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain Since 1800. London: Reaktion Books. p. 198. ISBN 978-1-86189-014-6.
  5. "Hugh & Muriel Dowding". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
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