Mary Fox-Strangways, Countess of Ilchester

Mary Eleanor Anne Dawson; 6 January 1852[1] – 1935) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman, an anti-suffragist and a leading figure in London society.

Mary Eleanor Anne Dawson was born in 1852 in St George Hanover Square, Westminster, the fourth child and only daughter of Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey (then Lord Cremorne) and Augusta Stanley.

Denzil Vesey (1879–1901; who died of pneumonia in Paris)[4] and Lady Muriel Augusta Digby (1876–1920).

She founded the London branch of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League in South Kensington in 1908.

[9] Together with the Duchess of Montrose and others, she published an article in the Pall Mall Magazine titled "Why Women Should Not Have the Vote, From the Woman’s Point of View.