Ann, Lady Dummett (born Agnes Margaret Ann Chesney; 4 September 1930 – 7 February 2012) was an English activist, campaigner for racial justice and published author.

Early life and career

Born at St George Hanover Square, London, the daughter of actor

Arthur Chesney Arthur William Kellaway (21 November 1881 – 27 August 1949), known as Arthur Chesney, was an English character actor who worked on stage and screen. Biography He was born 21 November 1881 in Hampstead, London, the son of John and Catherine K ...

, she was related to actors

Edmund Gwenn Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway; 26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1947), for which he won th ...

and

Cecil Kellaway Cecil Lauriston Kellaway (22 August 1890 – 28 February 1973) was a South African character actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, for '' The Luck of the Irish'' (1948) and ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinne ...

. She attended

Ware Grammar School for Girls Ware may refer to: People * Ware (surname) * William of Ware (), English Franciscan theologian Places Canada *Fort Ware, British Columbia United Kingdom * Ware, Devon *Ware, Hertfordshire *Ware, Kent United States * Ware, Elmore County, A ...

and

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ir ...

. In 1951 she married the philosopher

Michael Dummett Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was an English academic described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality." He wa ...

. With

Evan Luard David Evan Trant Luard (31 October 1926 – 8 February 1991), most commonly known as Evan Luard, was a British Labour Party and Social Democratic Party (SDP) politician, and a renowned international relations scholar. Education and early care ...

, Oxford's MP, they founded the Oxford Committee for Racial Integration, forerunner to Oxfordshire Council for Community Relations, and she became a full-time community relations officer. She went on to work at the

Institute of Race Relations The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is a think tank based in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1958 in order to publish research on race relations worldwide, and in 1972 was transformed into an "anti-racist think tank". Proposed by ''Sund ...

, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and the

Runnymede Trust The Runnymede Trust is a race equality think tank in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1968 by Jim Rose and Anthony Lester as an independent source for generating intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, ...

of which she was director from 1984 to 1987. Dummett died on 7 February 2012 in Oxford, England from unknown causes, six weeks after the death of her husband,

Michael Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian an ...

.Ann Dummett obituary
''The Guardian'', 24 February 2012; accessed 4 March 2015.

Publications

*''A Portrait of English Racism'', Penguin, 1973; *''Citizenship and Nationality'', Runnymede Trust, London, 1976 *''A New Immigration Policy'', Runnymede Trust, London, 1978 *''British Nationality: the AGIN guide to the new law'' (with Ian Martin), published for the Action Group on Immigration and Nationality by the National Council for Civil Liberties, London, 1982; *''Towards a Just Immigration Policy'' (ed.), Cobden Trust, London, 1986; *''Racially Motivated Crime: responses in three European cities: Frankfurt, Lyons and Rome'' (ed.), Commission for Racial Equality, London 1997;

References

External links

DUMMETT, (Agnes Margaret) Ann, (Lady Dummett)
Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, March 2012; accessed 9 April 2012.
Ann Dummett: A champion of equality
obituary, ''Oxford Mail'', 1 March 2012; accessed 4 March 2015. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dummett, Ann 1930 births 2012 deaths Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford English activists English women activists Writers from London Wives of knights