Ann Dummett

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 Ann (as she was always known) was born on 4 September 1930 at Westminster Hospital, the daughter of actor Arthur Chesney (1882–1949) and artist Kathleen ('Kitty') née Ridge (1901–1988). At the time of her birth her parents lived in Pimlico, London, but she was to grow up in Battersea, then a poor working-class part of the city, And the family were so 'hard up' that Kitty "sometimes pretended she had eaten earlier to have enough food to feed her".

She was a child prodigy, being able to read at the age of two.

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; Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others, (with Andrew Nicol), Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990 Racially Motivated Crime: responses in three European cities: Frankfurt, Lyons and Rome (ed.), Commission for Racial Equality, London 1997; For a complete bibliography (and an introduction to her work) see "Ann Dummett's Contribution to the Understanding of Immigration and Racism" (2015).