Battersea Dogs Home Biography
Mary Tealby (1801/2-1865), was the founder of the Battersea Dogs Home and supporter of the RSPCA. Mary was living in Holloway, London and the Islington Gazette reported her view, having found so many starving dogs in that district alone, that ‘the aggregate amount of suffering amongst those faithful creatures throughout London must be very dreadful indeed’. Concerned with the fate of dogs dying ‘of lingering starvation’ in the streets she established premises in St James’s Road, Holloway, where lost dogs could be retrieved by their owners. As the rules made clear the home was to be neither a permanent home for ‘old, worn out favourites’ nor a hospital, but a ‘temporary refuge to which humane persons may send only those lost dogs so constantly seen in the streets’ .
The first meeting of the committee running the home was held on 27 November 1860 at the premises of the RSPCA in Pall Mall, with Mary Tealby in the chair. Tealby was not a wealthy woman and much of the committee’s early work focused on essential fund-raising. By 1861 had become a life governor of the home. She died on 3 October 1865 in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, aged sixty-three. She and her brother were buried in the same grave in the churchyard of St Andrew’s, Biggleswade. The dogs’ home committee recorded their loss, declaring Mary Tealby to be a ‘kind-hearted and generous lady’.
Melissa Wareham is mad about dogs!
After spending 15 years working at a famous London dog shelter, Melissa moved to Sydney Australia where she wrote a book about her colourful experiences at the world's most famous dogs' home.
After a few years she returned to her native London, and in 2009 Rescue Me - My Life with the Battersea Dogs was published. It reached number four in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was serialised in the Mail on Sunday and made into an audio book, read by Melissa.
Rescue Me was adapted by Melissa for children and Take Me Home - Tales of Battersea Dogs was published in 2011 by Random House Children's Books.
Melissa's latest book is a fun-filled, action-packed work of fiction for children of all ages. Winston Windsor and the Diamond Jubilee is available on Amazon Kindle, and on iPad & iPhone via the kindle app.
Mary Tealby (1801/2-1865), was the founder of the Battersea Dogs Home and supporter of the RSPCA. Mary was living in Holloway, London and the Islington Gazette reported her view, having found so many starving dogs in that district alone, that ‘the aggregate amount of suffering amongst those faithful creatures throughout London must be very dreadful indeed’. Concerned with the fate of dogs dying ‘of lingering starvation’ in the streets she established premises in St James’s Road, Holloway, where lost dogs could be retrieved by their owners. As the rules made clear the home was to be neither a permanent home for ‘old, worn out favourites’ nor a hospital, but a ‘temporary refuge to which humane persons may send only those lost dogs so constantly seen in the streets’ .
The first meeting of the committee running the home was held on 27 November 1860 at the premises of the RSPCA in Pall Mall, with Mary Tealby in the chair. Tealby was not a wealthy woman and much of the committee’s early work focused on essential fund-raising. By 1861 had become a life governor of the home. She died on 3 October 1865 in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, aged sixty-three. She and her brother were buried in the same grave in the churchyard of St Andrew’s, Biggleswade. The dogs’ home committee recorded their loss, declaring Mary Tealby to be a ‘kind-hearted and generous lady’.
Melissa Wareham is mad about dogs!
After spending 15 years working at a famous London dog shelter, Melissa moved to Sydney Australia where she wrote a book about her colourful experiences at the world's most famous dogs' home.
After a few years she returned to her native London, and in 2009 Rescue Me - My Life with the Battersea Dogs was published. It reached number four in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was serialised in the Mail on Sunday and made into an audio book, read by Melissa.
Rescue Me was adapted by Melissa for children and Take Me Home - Tales of Battersea Dogs was published in 2011 by Random House Children's Books.
Melissa's latest book is a fun-filled, action-packed work of fiction for children of all ages. Winston Windsor and the Diamond Jubilee is available on Amazon Kindle, and on iPad & iPhone via the kindle app.
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