| Biography | Nina Mary Benita Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton (13 May 1878 12 January 1951), was the co-founder in 1903 of the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, with Lizzy Lind af Hageby, and in 1912 became a founder of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection, which went on to become Advocates for Animals. She also ran an animal sanctuary at Ferne House in Dorset, the estate she and her husband owned.
Born in 1878 in Salisbury, the Duchess was the daughter of Major Robert Poore and Juliana Benita Lowry-Corry. She married Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton in 1901, with whom she had four sons and three daughters. |