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" the only sin passion can commit is to be joyless"

English writer -  Dorothy Sayers 1893-1957

Her Name Is Dorothy

* Dorothy Arzner

born 1900 died 1979

..... winner of the FIRST prize in Britain's FIRST film festival in 1928 The International Festival of Women's Films, London FIRST woman director of sound films when she made Paramount's FIRST sound film The Wild Party in 1929 and began the FIRST film making course at the Pasadena Playhouse

* Dorothy Barton

died 1992

..... FIRST Northern woman elected to the Board of Management of the National Chamber of Trade.  She was also the longest serving member in the NTC's history, chaired the Greater Manchester Council and became honorary Vice-President in 1991. In 1974 she was awarded the MBE

* Dorothy Buchanan

..... FIRST woman admitted as a full member of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1927

* Dorothy Carter

born June 24th 1927

..... FIRST woman President of the Gainsborough Town Bowling Club - 1990-91 (P/L)

* Dorothy Couper

..... FIRST woman to be appointed District Commandant in Scotland Yard's Special Constabulary - 1982/83. She was in charge of all 'Specials' in the police district which covered Paddington, Marylebone and St. John's Wood

* Dorothy Dandridge

..... FIRST black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress - 1954 - Carmen Jones - and the FIRST black actress to be in a screen interracial romantic relationship when she appeared in the film Island in the Sun in 1957. She was also the FIRST black actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine

* Dorothy Mary Donaldson

born 1921

..... in 1966 she was the FIRST woman elected to the Court of Common Council and in 1983 she became the FIRST ever woman Lord Mayor of the City of London following a line of 655 men since the office was established in 1192. The line included Richard Whytyngdone (Dick Whittington) who was Lord Mayor four times between 1397 and 1419 and John Wilkes, the Radical, who occupied the Mansion House in 1774. She was also the FIRST woman City Alderman and FIRST woman Sheriff

* Dorothy Dunn

..... American who was the FIRST and only woman news cameraman (newsreel) when she joined the crew of Universal Animated Weekly c 1918

* Dorothy Fosdick

born April 17th 1913 died 1997

..... FIRST woman to hold a high-level policy job at the US State Department where she was present at the creation of the United Nations, the Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

* Dorothy Furey

..... FIRST American woman to be cleared to ferry British warplanes and the only one to do so before Pearl Harbour. She was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary

* Dorothy Garrod

..... FIRST woman Professor at Cambridge University when she was Professor of Archaeology from 1939-52

* Dorothy Gates

..... FIRST woman Vice-President of the Association of Master Upholsterers in 1990. She has written six books on the subject and teaches professionals and amateurs alike

* Dorothy Gish

..... American star who was said to be the FIRST screen star to wear jeans in 1914

* Dorothy Hill

born September 10th 1907 died 1997

..... Australian geologist who was the FIRST woman appointed to a professorial chair in Australia when made Research Professor of Geology at Queensland University in 1959, FIRST woman President of the Australian Academy of Science and the FIRST woman to preside over an Australian university professorial board. She was also the FIRST Australian woman to become a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1971 she was appointed CBE and made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1993 and received numerous medals

* Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

born May 12th 1910 died 29th July 1994

..... Nobel prize-winning chemist who was appointed the FIRST Wolfson Research Professor of the Royal Society and in 1965 became the FIRST woman since Florence Nightingale to be appointed to the Order of Merit. She correctly analysed cholesterol iodide, the FIRST complex organic molecule to be determined completely by X-ray analysis and her use of an electronic computer to organise data marked the FIRST time that one had been so used. In 1964 she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for analyzing the structure of Vitamin B12. She was also the FIRST female Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

* Dorothy Keene

..... FIRST woman to work in the mines in America. She claimed that she was put through hell for the first six months by the men and made to do every dirty job. The Mines Act of 1842 had prohibited the employment of women underground

* Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison

born 1832 died 1878

..... FIRST statue to a woman other than royalty was erected in her memory at Walsall, Staffordshire. Known as Sister Dora she devoted most of her life to hospital work in Walsall and was revered for her saintly life and devotion to the sick and poor. The statue was sculpted by F J Williamson and was unveiled in 1886

* Dorothy Martin Simon

..... FIRST person to isolate an isotope of calcium

* Dorothy Spicer

..... co-director of the world's FIRST all-female airborne business venture - Air Trips - along with

 Pauline Gower

* Dorothy Louise Thomas

born 11th August 1905 died 1989

..... the FIRST probationer at the new Dovercourt Cottage Hospital and one of the FIRST women to be awarded the George Cross which was made for her heroism in preventing a disaster at London's Middlesex Hospital in 1934 whilst working as a theatre sister and she prevented more serious damage after an oxygen cylinder had caught fire and threatened to explode.  She was decorated with the Empire Gallantry Medal and in 1942 was invested with the George Cross in exchange for the EGM, although she wanted to keep her original award. Another female recipient of this award was Daphne Pearson who given the award on July 19th 1940 during the Second World War. Again hers was exchanged for the George Cross

* Dorothy Weil

..... author of America's FIRST best-selling novel, Charlotte Temple in 1794

* Dorothy Weir

..... the FIRST person to receive the new EEC passport at Glasgow passport office, which was the FIRST to be computerised to dispense the burgundy-coloured documents which replaced the traditional blue ones in 1988

* Dorothy Wilding

died 1976

..... FIRST woman photographer to be invited to photograph a royal coronation and accession when King George V1 and Queen Elizabeth were crowned in 1937. She opened her first studio in 1915 and during the 1920s and 1930s, when portrait photography was all the rage among the middle classes, she became the most successful woman practitioner

* Dorothy Wrinch

born 1894 died 1970

..... FIRST woman to receive a DSc from Oxford University in 1929

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