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= Anne Patricia Dalgarno = Anne Patricia Dalgarno (6 of July 1909 - 6 May 1980) was an avid member of the Canberra Advisory Council, a nurse for the Nursing Service Agency and an advocate for the youth, the physically handicapped and for the disadvantaged people in Canberra.

Family
Dalgarno was born in Wrentham, Suffolk, England on July 6. She is the daughter to Henry Patrick Smith, a farmer, and Mabel Christina (nee Edwards). Her uncle is Cardinal Patrick Moran. She has seven siblings. Dalgarno also had three grandchildren; Susan, Barney and Amanda. She got married in June 1 1937 at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney to a civil engineer Kenneth John Dalgarno and had two children ; Marjorie and John She lived in 8 Torres Street, Red Hill, ACT.

Career
In 1954, six years after she moved to Canberra with her husband and children, she established the Nurses Club. This club consisted of nurses that went to private residents in and around red hill and provided nurses for people. She ran this club from her house in the belief that a mother's place is in the home, as long as she is needed there. This continued until 1979.

After attending a women's branch of the Liberal party, her interesting politics was flared and she soon became a devoted member of the Liberal party. She ran for a position in the Division of Australian Capital Territory (ACT), but unfortunately, was unsuccessful. She then ran as an independent in 1966.

She later ran for the ACT Advisory council in 1959 and was successfully appointed as an independent. She then continued for run for the next 8 years where she was unsuccessful in the election in 1967. She lectured students in first year from Australian National University on 'Sex and responsibility' in 1969. She the was re-elected in 1970 and worked till her retirement in 1974. Dalgarno also submitted a strongly argued case against self-government to the Federal parliament committee on the A.C.T. In 1972 she published a children's book 'The Bored Duck'. In 1977 she was appointed the M.B.E.

Dalgarno ran her campaign on community facilities for teenagers, welfare and accommodation for elderly and the ACT. Some of these ideas bought back from overseas visits. She also proposed legislation on unfair rent and other issues. In 1970 to these issues led her to become the first chairman of the Emergency Housing Committee.

She was the only female member of the council at the time she was there and always encouraged women to get more involved in politics stating that women had been ‘ignoring politics for too long’

Canberra times describes her as "The most active women in public life in Canberra."

She also supported conventional Christian values and was an outspoken opponent of abortion.

Achievements

 * Member of the Order of the British Empire for valuable community service and was awarded a Sliver Jubilee Medal.

Organisations
She is a member of 22 different organisations and works for them as stated by " I'm a member of 22 different organisations, and not just in name either, I work for them.

These included:
 * ACT advisory council from 1959 to 1967, Liberal member,
 * Red Hill-Griffith-Narrabundah-Kingston-Manuka Progress Association,
 * Wives and Widows of Public Servants and Servicemen's association,
 * Zonta
 * Canberra debating union
 * Chairman of the Emergency Housing Committee
 * Liberal party member from 1955 to 1959.
 * Director of the Private nurses Association and
 * Founder of the Australian Italian Women's League,
 * Board of Canberra Community Hospital
 * Founder of the Canberra Nurses club,
 * The Australian Red cross,
 * National council of women,
 * Good Neighbour Council,
 * The Australian Association for the United States,
 * The Hospital Auxiliary and the Horticultural Society.

Death
Dalgarno died of chronic asthma and was buried in Canberra cemetery. She had her funeral celebrated at St. Christopher's Cathedral, Manuka, Friday 9 May 1980 at 2.30 pm.