# Anne Dalgarno

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'''Anne Patricia Dalgarno''' [MBE](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) (6 July 1909 – 6 May 1980) was an Australian politician, nurse and community leader.

Dalgarno was born '''Anne Patricia Smith''' in [Wrentham](/source/Wrentham%2C_Suffolk), [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk), to farmer Henry Patrick Smith and Mabel Christina, ''née'' Edwards. [Cardinal Patrick Moran](/source/Patrick_Francis_Moran) was her uncle. She had governesses before attending the Convent of the Holy Family in [Littlehampton](/source/Littlehampton), [Sussex](/source/Sussex), and migrated to [Western Australia](/source/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](/source/St_Mary's_Cathedral%2C_Sydney) in [Sydney](/source/Sydney). They had two children before moving to [Canberra](/source/Canberra) in 1948.<ref name=adb>{{Cite web
  | last = Clarke
  | first = Patricia
  | title = Dalgarno, Anne Patricia (1909–1980)
  | work = [Australian Dictionary of Biography](/source/Australian_Dictionary_of_Biography)
  | publisher = [Australian National University](/source/Australian_National_University)
  | date = 1993
  | url = https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dalgarno-anne-patricia-9892
  | access-date = 21 July 2011}}</ref>

Dalgarno established the Nurses Club in 1954 and was a board member of Canberra Community Hospital (1954&ndash;59) and president of the [ACT](/source/Australian_Capital_Territory) branch of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation. She unsuccessfully ran for the [division of Australian Capital Territory](/source/division_of_Australian_Capital_Territory) as a [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Australia) in 1958 and an [independent](/source/independent_(politician)) in 1966. She was elected as an independent to the [Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council](/source/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 ([Mary Steel Stevenson](/source/Mary_Steel_Stevenson) having been a member until 1959 and [Lyndall Ryan](/source/Lyndall_Ryan) being a member from 1967 to 1968 when Dalgarno was not on the council) and encouraged women to become involved in politics.<ref name=adb/>

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](/source/abortion), was appointed a [Member of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) in 1977. She died at [Royal Canberra Hospital](/source/Royal_Canberra_Hospital) in 1980 of chronic [asthma](/source/asthma) and was buried in [Canberra Cemetery](/source/Canberra_Cemetery).<ref name=adb/>

Dalgarno Close in the [Canberra](/source/Canberra) suburb of [Macquarie](/source/Macquarie%2C_Australian_Capital_Territory) is named in her honour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/25597207|title=Australian Capital Territory National Memorials Ordinance 1928 Determination — Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Periodic (National : 1977–2011), p.19|date=31 August 1988|website=Trove|language=en|access-date=2020-02-16}}</ref>

== Achievements ==
* Member of Board of the [Canberra Community Hospital](/source/Canberra_Community_Hospital)<ref>{{Cite news|title = A.C.T. LIBERALS TO NOMINATE MRS. DALGARNO|url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103121147|newspaper = The Canberra Times|date = 1958-09-18|access-date = 2015-10-26|pages = 2}}</ref>

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Category:People from Wrentham, Suffolk
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Category:Australian Capital Territory politicians
Category:20th-century Australian women

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