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Cecilia Annie John (November 5, 1877- May 28, 1955) was a singer, women's activist, children’s activist, pacifist, and feminist.

Early Life
Cecilia grew up with welsh parents Daniel and Rosetta Bevan in Hobart, Australia. She left home during her teen years to pursue a study in singing and music in Melbourne with Mrs. Trantham Fryer. She had a contralto voice and performed as part of the Metropolitan Liedertafel, The Melbourne Philharmonic Society and George Musgrove's German Opera Company. She instituted a poultry farm in Deepdene where she made sheds and worked on the farm to produce money to pay for all of her musical training.

Career
From 1911 she was already a singing and production teacher. Cecilia becoming more interested in social questions, worked and helped many different organisations. She worked for the Australian Freedom League where she wrote anti-conscription literature. She became good friends with Vida Goldstein and supported her in her political career with her bid in 1913 as an independent candidate for the senate, supported by the Women's Federal Political Federation to get women the right to vote. She later joined the Women's Political Association and wrote many times for the Women Voter. In July of 1915 she was apart of the creation of a sister-organisation of the Women Voter, The Women’s Peace Army and became their financial secretary and pleaded against conscription and militarism. She advocated for women’s rights and control of production by the people. This organisation while getting more known and had members such as Adela Pankhurst. Working with a bigger focus on children, she then formed the Children’s Peace Army. Then going on doing work with Ina iggins, they ran the Women’s Rural Industries in Mordialloc to help unemployed women. Later she merged into a musical  direction, working with Mrs Stewart Macky and together they set up the People’s Conservatorium.

As a pacifist, all of her activity was kept under watch of the military. Her mail was opened and her house searched, although she was never arrested. She even sang at anti-conscription meetings and was convicted for failing to keep the aisle clear. Her song “I didn’t raise my son to be a soldier” was banned by the government under the law precautions act which ultimately affected her work with The Women’s Voter even being threatened to stop the use of their printing equipment. In Switzerland, 1919 Cecilia and Vida were present after their invitation to Zurich for the Women’s International Peace Conference where she later worked for the International Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. She also did work for the Save the Children Fund in London. Noticing more underprivileged children on her way back, in Melbourne she created the Australian Save the Children Fund.

Later life
She went on in 1921 and found an interest in a new type of dancing and returning to London. She ventured into studying Dalcroze Eurhythmics dancing. In 1923 and 1927-28 she toured Australia dancing in this style and following this she was principal of the London school of Dalcroze Eurhythmics up until her death in 1955, Godalming Surrey.