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Lady Margaret Moir, one of Britain's finest Edwardian-era female pioneers, owned the five-bedroom Cadigan Square townhouse (left), in London's fashionable Knightsbridge district. The Grade II-listed residence sprawls over 4,405 sq ft and has a long tradition of female liberation, before being the Women's Voluntary Services Club's HQ, which established the meals on wheels program. Lady Moir, the founder of the Women's Engineering Society, was named OBE in recognition of her service during the First World War in establishing the WeekEnd Relief Scheme for female employees. In the 1920s and 1930s, she occupied Cadogan Square. She would host interviews at the home, attended by the crème de la crème of British female pioneers, including pilot Amy Johnson, who became the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia in 1930.