Maria Dickin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMaria Dickin
Animal welfare campaigner
Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1870
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 01-Mar-1951
Profession: animal rights advocate
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Maria Dickin
- Maria Elisabeth Dickin CBE (nickname, Mia; 22 September 1870 – 1 March 1951) was a social reformer and an animal welfare pioneer who founded the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) in 1917.
- Born in 1870 in London, she was the oldest of eight children; her parents were William George Dickin, a Wesleyan minister, and Ellen Maria (née Exell).
- She married her first cousin, Arnold Francis Dickin, an accountant, in 1899; they had no children.
- She enjoyed music, literary work and philanthropy.
- Dickin died in London in 1951 of influenzal broncho-pneumonia.
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