Mary Tealby was an English animal welfare campaigner.
10 Facts About Mary Tealby
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Mary Tealby is noted for founding the Battersea Dogs' Home.
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Mary Tealby gained a younger brother who like her father was named Edward.
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Mary Tealby kept her married name and went to live with her father and her brother.
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Mary Tealby was still a member and supporter of the RSPCA.
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Mary Tealby cared for an abandoned dog that had been found by her friend Sarah Major, but it died and she decided to set up a place where abandoned dogs could be cared for.
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Mary Tealby called it "The Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs" and it was founded in North London in 1860.
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Mary Tealby had a huge following and was an enthusiastic but realistic dog supporter.
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Mary Tealby wrote about a "remarkable institution" that had saved "over a thousand" dogs in 1860.
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Mary Tealby died in Biggleswade in 1865 and she was buried at Church of St Andrew, Biggleswade.