Dorothy Clarissa Keeling OBE (2 December 1881 – 27 March 1967) was a British social worker who joined The Bradford Guild of Help and went on to Liverpool where she transformed voluntary efforts there and in the UK.
Her mother was Henrietta Frances (born Gedge) and her father was the Reverend William Hulton Keeling who transformed Northampton and Bradford Grammar School.
[2] In 1907 she joined The Bradford Guild of Help, which had been formed two years before, and she was a key member until[3] in 1918 the personal services committee of the Liverpool Council of Voluntary Aid was established with Keeling as its first secretary.
The title 'Liverpool Personal Services Society was not adopted until 1922 but those involved with its creation were Eleanor Rathbone[4]', Keeling, Elizabeth Macadam, and academic Frederic D'Aeth.
[citation needed] A long queue of people that could be found lining up on its winding staircase to speak to someone at Liverpool Personal Services Society.