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Her Name is Alison

* Alison Armitage

..... the FIRST woman officer in Greater Manchester Police force to be killed in the line of duty since the GMP was formed in 1974

* Alison Cargill

 ..... FIRST girl guide company, The Cuckoo Patrol of Girl Scouts, was formed by her in 1908. A year later it was taken under the wing of the 1st Glasgow troop of Boy Scouts.  The idea of a female branch of the scout movement first received official recognition in the Scout HQ gazette in 1909 in an article entitled 'Scheme for Girl Guides'. By this time there were over 6,000 female 'Boy Scouts' registered in the UK and there was little choice but to form them into a separate section with activities suitable to young ladies.  The girls resisted this idea as they wanted to follow the same pursuits as the boys but they were obliged to submit to the committee of ladies formed in 1910 by Agnes Baden Powell and were taught how to make tea and bandage patients etc

* Alison Ewan

..... FIRST woman to hold an equerry's appointment with the Prince of Wales

* Alison Halford

 ..... FIRST woman assistant chief constable in Britain. She was a chief superintendent in the Metropolitan Police and was chosen from a short list of four by Merseyside Police. She joined the force at the age of 22 and was promoted to Sergeant after four years. She worked in the metropolitan community relations department and was later in charge of an operational division near Heathrow

* Alison Hardy

 ….. cleric who was the FIRST female vicar in charge at St John's CE Church, Irlam and then FIRST female at the historic All Saints Church in Stand, Whitefield (UK)

* Alison Hargreaves

died 1995

 ..... English mountaineer who was the FIRST woman to climb Everest without oxygen and sherpas, FIRST British woman to climb the North Face of the Eiger, FIRST woman to climb K2 without oxygen, FIRST woman to solo climb 6 Alpine North Faces within two months and the FIRST woman to conquer a Himalayan peak by its toughest route when she reached the 22,500' summit of Kantega in five days in 1986

* Alison Holloway

 ..... FIRST woman and FIRST Briton to occupy a solo anchor job on American television

* Alison John

 ..... FIRST 'village survival' officer when appointed by the Countryside Commission.  She was an environmental science graduate from Bradford University and took up her duties in the Cambridgeshire fens community of Haddenham, near Ely in 1991. She was pioneering a scheme under which the Countryside Commission intended to make experts available to help villages to survive as self-supporting, independent communities

* Alison Kay

..... winner of the FIRST Jet People Awards. She founded the Newcastle People's Kitchen to feed the homeless and deprived people in the inner city. Alison was presented with her award at a special ceremony at London's Ritz Hotel and was also presented with a cheque for £2500 in recognition of her efforts 

* Alison Kervin

 ..... FIRST woman to join the Rugby Football Union's salaried track-suited staff in 1991

* Alison McGuire and Anne Cooper

….. two young girls who made history when they became the FIRST 'domino' swap patients at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. Anne was given a new donor heart and lungs whilst her own healthy heart was given to Alison. The girls became great friends and each year mark their operation's success with a celebratory drink

* Alison Morgan

..... FIRST woman to be allowed into the British Magical Society in 1991 after its 87 years of men-only membership since it was founded in 1904

* Alison Norrish

 ..... FIRST woman President of the men's university boat club at either Oxford or Cambridge - 1989

* Alison Sharp

 ..... FIRST woman to run the 200 strong cadet force at Marlborough College when she became Contingent Commander in 1991. Marlborough School was also the FIRST boys' public school to take in girls )

* Alison Smithson

died 1993

 ..... half of the partnership of Alison and Peter Smithson, whose radical approach embroiled them in many passionate debates in the 1950s and 1960s. Their first notable building, a large school at Hunstanton, Norfolk, was the FIRST uncompromising example in England of the steel and glass idiom of Mies van der Rohe

* Alison Streeter

  born 1964

 ..... English swimmer known as the 'Queen of the Channel' who in 1995  swam the English Channel five times making her the overall record-holder for cross-Channel swims and marking the FIRST time a woman has ever held that honour.  She was the FIRST woman ever to swim Ireland to Scotland, FIRST person ever to swim Scotland to Ireland and the FIRST woman to swim the English Channel three ways. Alison is also the only British woman to swim the English Channel both ways which she did in 1983, just before her nineteenth birthday. She is the only person ever to succeed in swimming up the Thames. In 1991 she was awarded the MBE for her achievements

* Alison Tapp

..... FIRST girl to take the Army course as a civilian apprentice at the REME workshops at Aldershot. She was 19 years old and won the trophy for the best civilian apprentice beating 54 other apprentices

* Alison Vaughan

 ..... FIRST education officer with Manchester City football club who in December 1995 was declared a Woman of Achievement when she was winner of the education section of the Cosmopolitan-American Express achievement awards

* Alison Whalley

 ..... FIRST woman commodore of Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club in it's eighty year history - 2008.

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