Anne Dalgarno, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Anne Dalgarno

Australian politician, nurse and community leader

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1909

Place of Birth: Wrentham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 06-May-1980

Profession: politician, nurse

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Anne Dalgarno

  • Anne Patricia Dalgarno MBE (6 July 1909 – 6 May 1980) was an Australian politician, nurse and community leader. Dalgarno was born Anne Patricia Smith in Wrentham, Suffolk, to farmer Henry Patrick Smith and Mabel Christina, née Edwards.
  • Cardinal Patrick Moran was her uncle.
  • She had governesses before attending the Convent of the Holy Family in Littlehampton, Sussex, and migrated to Western Australia with her family when she was sixteen.
  • Smith trained at the Children's and Perth hospitals and became a registered nurse in 1933.
  • She married Kenneth John Dalgarno, a civil engineer, on 1 July 1937 at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.
  • They had two children before moving to Canberra in 1948.Dalgarno established the Nurses Club in 1954 and was a board member of Canberra Community Hospital (1954–59) and president of the ACT branch of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation.
  • She unsuccessfully ran for the division of Australian Capital Territory as a Liberal in 1958 and an independent in 1966.
  • She was elected as an independent to the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council in 1959 and served until 1967, and again from 1970 until 1974.
  • She was the only woman on the council and encouraged women to become involved in politics.Dalgarno was an opponent of self-government, supporting a lord mayor as opposed to a chief minister.
  • She presided over the Foundation for Youth Ltd from 1972 and established the Emergency Housing Committee in 1973.
  • Dalgarno, a proponent of Christian values and vigorous opponent of abortion, was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1977.
  • She died at Royal Canberra Hospital in 1980 of chronic asthma and was buried in Canberra Cemetery.

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