Lady Gertrude Stock

Lady Gertrude Georgina Stock (née Douglas; 21 August 1842 – 25 November 1893) was a Scottish aristocrat and novelist, who also wrote under the pseudonym George Douglas.[1] In 1891 she founded the National Canine Defence League (today known as Dogs Trust) to protect dogs from "torture and ill-usage of every kind".[2]

  1. ^ George Douglas at the Orlando Project.
  2. ^ Learn with dogs, History of Dogs Trust Archived 13 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Most of the information comes from page 5.