Muriel Dowding
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Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding (March 22, 1908 – November 20, 1993) was an English animal rights
activist. Like her husband Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
, she was a vegetarian, an anti-vivisection
ist and a spiritualist.
She was well known in Britain for her work as an animal rights campaigner. 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).
Animal rights
Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...
activist. Like her husband Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding GCB, GCVO, CMG was a British officer in the Royal Air Force...
, she was a vegetarian, an anti-vivisection
Vivisection
Vivisection is defined as surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure...
ist and a spiritualist.
She was well known in Britain for her work as an animal rights campaigner. 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
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a charity in England and Wales that promotes animal welfare. In 2009 the RSPCA investigated 141,280 cruelty complaints and collected and rescued 135,293 animals...
(RSPCA).