Dames of Malta are female members of the

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. The male counterparts of these

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are the Knights of Malta. Prominent living Dames of Malta include: * Anne M. Burke *

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* Marianna, Dowager Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley, served as

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(1981–82); widow of Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley * Patricia Mary, Lady Talbot of Malahide (née Riddell) *

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Deceased Dames of Malta

* Lady Jean Bertie (née Crichton-Stuart), mother of Fra' Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, first Grand Master of the

since 1258 to hail from the English-speaking world *

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(1765-1815), awarded the Maltese Cross by Emperor Paul I of Russia for her aid to blockaded Malta. Lady Hamilton was the first English woman to be invested as a Dame of Malta Williams 2006, p, 234. *

Csilla von Boeselager Csilla von Boeselager (May 17, 1941 in Budapest – February 23, 1994, in Arnsberg-Voßwinkel) was a Baroness who founded the Hungarian Maltese Charity Organisation in Germany (german: Ungarischer Malteser Caritas Dienst), and initiated the found ...

, Hungarian philanthropist; founded the Hungarian Maltese Charity Organisation (Ungarischer Malteser Caritas Dienst) *

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, Papal Duchess, Dame of the

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, holder of the Cross

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, founder of the Carroll Club (“for Catholic business girls”), philanthropist; board chairman

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; vice-president of the Welfare Council of New York *

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Virginia A. Dwyer (1921-1997)
director and deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Rochester; and a board member of Eaton Corporation, Schering-Plough, Borden, Southern Company, the Atlantic Companies, and Georgia Power

Vice-President, Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard, the South African Relief Organisation of the

Order of Malta The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta ( it, Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme, di Rodi e di Malta; ...

; first South African woman to be invested as a Dame of Malta *

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, American playwright and political activist
Dorothea Angela McElduff (1926–2013), Member of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre and Dame of Malta
* Mary McShain (née Mary J. Horstmann), great-niece of Bishop Ignatius F. Horstmann (the third Bishop of the

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); widow of

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* Regina A Quick, American philanthropist *

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, American constitutional lawyer and conservative activist * Lady Hilda Susan Northcote Swan, late wife of Sir Conrad Swan *

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