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3 unusual facts about Mary Sophia Allen


Mary Sophia Allen

In November 1922 Allen stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as an Independent Liberal candidate for Westminster St George's.

Allen met a number of fascist leaders abroad, including Eoin O'Duffy in Ireland, Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy, and Hitler and Göring in Germany.

She heard that a number of women were trying to set up a women's police force and, in 1914, she joined Nina Boyle's Women Police Volunteers, which was taken over by Margaret Damer Dawson in 1915 and renamed the Women Police Service (WPS), with Allen as second-in-command.



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