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Dame Rachel Waterhouse, DBE (born 2 January 1923) is a local historian of Birmingham and the West Midlands of England, consumer affairs activist and writer.
She has been chairman of Consumers' Association, and a member of the National Consumer Council and of the Health and Safety Commission. She was a member of the group which resurrected the Lunar Society around 1990 and became its founder Chairman.
She became a founder member of The Victorian Society in 1958 and was instrumental in setting up the Birmingham Branch in 1967, becoming its first Chairman between 1967 - 1971.
She was president of the Birmingham and Midland Institute for 1992.
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