1 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9929b8bd7218b4d23f50e5a4886f1a4e.jpg 44ac17954eea9d8bb3ba7ea63637fe56 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Mapdata ©2017Google streetview https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a4257e5da42fe4d6c3d64d739ab155cc.jpg eece4abfd98f1dd63873357e247bc49e Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 40 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 16 Clarendon Square, Leamington Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Private means Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies (but defiant statement) Biographical Text Ada was the Honorary Secretary and sat on the subcommittee for the Leamington branch of the Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association (CUWFA) in 1911. The CUWFA formed in 1908 to work peacefully and constitutionally for ‘the removal of the sex disqualification from the franchise’ by bringing Conservative and Unionist’s together. Ada was very active for the CUWFA’s Leamington branch, attending numerous suffrage society meetings and travelled down to London to participate in the Women’s Coronation Procession in June 1911. The procession was organised by suffrage societies to rival the official Coronation procession of George V from which women were excluded. Approximately 40,000 women from around 30 women’s suffrage societies participated, and the procession was seven miles long. Despite the CUWFA and its members commitment to peaceful methods of campaigning, many law-abiding women like Ada were losing patience with the Liberal government and becoming more sympathetic to the often illegal and sometimes violent tactics used by the suffragettes. Ada's feelings are captured on her 1911 census return when she writes ‘non-militant suffragist (at present)’ under her name. This tells us that Ada was at a crossroads between the non-militant and militant paths in 1911. What did she decide? We can’t say for certain, but there is no evidence yet to suggest she engaged in illegal activity thereafter, or that she joined a more militant society like the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) which had a branch in Leamington at that time. Ada also wrote ‘Votes for women’ in every margin of her census return in protest at the government's refusal to allow her a voice through the vote, thus denying her rights as a citizen. After its collection, and unbeknown to her, someone, probably the census agent, wrote ‘No’ in front of each 'Votes for Women' declaration in the margins, thus mounting his own counter protest. Researcher: Tara Morton. Research funded by Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ada Florence Wightwick Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(-171433.50747895418 6853459.229685286) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e57e96576c514a5d4f63dab007957cc2.png ca37c9268a3ab950eaa1392eb1c58a5f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: Southwark Local History Library and Archive, Wellcome Images. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5f883ab178c6497608b9ce1320b7d558.jpg 2be7e333f11356838e9fc6e146e13e73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9b6ec2d1d2a90deda1c469992957c829.png f30e0dee4364031c2475e43f7d22aa3f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Bermondsey Settlement circa 1903 (Women's Houses for residents). Source: Harvard Library, HOLLIS HUAM5899soc. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/efe730179db9561e7868db1c0be21b67.png ef0f954f8413954a1fe0691f0a9c9509 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ada's statue on the docks. Source: Lynn Morris. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Social Worker/Politician/Pioneer of Ethical Socialism Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 44 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 5 Stork's Road, Bermondsey, London. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Ada was born into a well to do Methodist farming family in Raunds, Northamptonshire in 1866. A champion of ethical socialism, she left the comfort of Raunds as a young woman to work in the slums of St. Pancras as a Sister of the People to improve the lives of working women and their families. She later transferred to the Bermondsey Settlement where she ran several Working Girls Clubs and other community initiatives for the poor. It was there that she met her husband Alfred a medical doctor and the two married in 1900. Ada aligned herself with the radical wing of the Liberal Party, but she left in 1906 when it failed to honour its promises on votes for women, joining the Independent Labour Party (ILP) instead. She became deeply involved in the work of the ILP, a party that organised emancipation in the factories and on the streets. She was enthused by the ‘real business’ of ‘practical socialism’ and in that same year helped found and lead the Women’s Labour League. When it formed a year later in 1907, Ada supported the Women’s Freedom League (WFL) a Votes for women society led by her friend and fellow poverty campaigner Charlotte Despard. Ada eschewed the more violent tactics of Mrs Pankhurst’s WSPU. In 1909, Ada became the first woman Councillor in London, and with husband Alfred, she helped lead the ‘Bermondsey Uprising’ in 1911 when the working population of Bermondsey went on strike for better working conditions. Ada’s recruitment of 14,000 local women into the National Federation of Women Workers led by Mary Macarthur was instrumental. Ada did not take part in the suffrage boycott of the census that was also organised in 1911 to protest at women not having the vote and endorsed by the WFL. The reasons are unclear why she complied, but many women like Ada who campaigned for better living conditions in poor areas believed women should fill in the census because its details helped reveal the true state of overcrowding and infant deaths for example. The couples census form also reveals the tragic loss of their own daughter Joyce to scarlet fever. Interestingly, Ada's husband Alfred lists Ada on the census as simply a ‘housewife’ - yet she was so much more. Ada also became the first woman Mayor in London in 1922. As Mayor of Bermondsey, she steadfastly refused to wear the mayoral regalia, nor acknowledge Royal ceremonial occasions. Neither would she fly the Union Jack on Bermondsey Town Hall; instead, she chose to fly the red flag of socialism, emblazoned with the Bermondsey heraldic symbol. Ada believed strongly and campaigned throughout her life for the development of co-operatives, green spaces, universal suffrage, free school meals, free national health service, slum-clearance and humane working conditions. During her time in office, she planted thousands of trees in Bermondsey to improve the air quality, developed green spaces, planted municipal flower beds, had well-designed social housing built, communal laundries, clinics, swimming pools and a solarium. As pacifists, she and Alfred turned to Quakerism and both passionately spoke out against WW1 and then WW2, which they saw as an inevitable consequence of the injustices of the Versailles Treaty towards Germany. Ada is only the 15th woman in London to be accorded a statue. Her figure (as part of Dr Salter’s Daydream group sculpture, situated by the Thames in Bermondsey) marks her work as a woman trade unionist, a woman environmentalist, a Quaker, and a woman politician. Contributed by: Lynn Morris, playwright and performer inspired by Ada's story (www.journeymentheatre.com) Sources and further reading: Ada Salter: Pioneer of Ethical Socialism by Graham Taylor (Lawrence and Wishart 2016) Under Salter Lectures, there is a full transcript of Lynn Morris’s one woman play about the life of Ada Salter called ‘Red Flag Over Bermondsey’ at https://quakersocialists.org.uk/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ada Salter Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-7163.520551040778 6709422.736140364) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/950adee71350c95e12baef91dba8015a.png 4a00cfaa40d6344d8ea6abaa07bb8f72 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Mapdata ©2017Google streetview https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/00bd8bdb46241a8b51a32006d2cf5f0d.jpg 26d5d7cecc5aa899e43e7ba4f2777d68 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 41 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 3 Archery Road, Leamington Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Private means Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Ada was probably a member of a local branch of the National Union for Women’s Suffrage (NUWSS). She acted as a steward for the NUWSS at a local fete and wrote to the suffrage press on their behalf emphasising the size and scope of the NUWSS across England as well as the societies commitment to peaceable means of campaigning. In June 1911, she was among the women and men that travelled down to take part in the Women’s Coronation Procession in London. The procession was organised by suffrage societies to rival the official Coronation procession of George V from which women were excluded. Approximately 40,000 women from around 30 women’s suffrage societies participated, and the procession was seven miles long. Politics played a large part in Ada’s family life. Her father Samuel Wackrill was Leamington’s first Mayor appointed in 1875/6. He was responsible for the town becoming a borough in 1875 and was hugely influential in the town for over forty years. He was given the Freedom of the Borough in 1899 and has a blue plaque on his former residence at 28 Portland Street. Samuel had arrived in Leamington in 1861 and set up a very successful drapers business which he left to Ada and her siblings upon his death in 1907. Four years later in 1911, we find Ada living in Archery Road with her sister Alice Maria and brother Walter Thomas. Researcher: Tara Morton. Research funded by Warwick University. For more on Samuel Thomas Wackrill, see, Robin Taylor, http://www.leamingtonhistory.co.uk/samuel-thomas-wackrill-1828-1907-first-mayor-of-leamington/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ada Sharland Wackrill Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(-171603.93761933496 6852277.958267987) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0df740091fcd3ba611749bb7d3a9bdde.jpg ee0f9d2fae72969c0799c85587b41ea0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Adela Coit. Source: © Humanists UK 2025 https://heritage.humanists.uk/adela-coit/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/683d74e1dbb701989c42f85b49302622.jpg 5136a39e207e01875203fba9c3ae5611 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 1911 census for Adela and Dr Stanton Coit. Source: courtesy of The National Archives https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ebc20ae560dfc2a7ab45fa6991782c1e.jpg 8f8f29c50de9857d3559fceaf66b1ec8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Board of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance at the International Woman Suffrage Congress in Budapest, 1913. Left to right, standing: Katherine McCormick, Adela Coit, Anna Lindemann, Annie Furuhjelm, Signe Bergmann, Chrystal MacMillan, Rosika Schwimmer. Seated: Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Carrie Chapman Catt, Marguerite de Witt Schlumberger. Source: © Humanists UK 2025 https://heritage.humanists.uk/adela-coit/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f2d91a9caff6c92eb115588c1e616150.jpg ea22dd26659ffe5fbab1ec9a11eb33f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: Isle of Wight Observer, 21 Sept 1912 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b99d3f4624154fe0ac0bb91e61b637f5.jpg cd72e8bf59ef2ef30bcabb507c3bdf5e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: Common Cause (NUWSS Paper) 27 Dec 1912 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b009c455cbb07f4178cac74e08e3f5c8.jpg 5196f8d76b6f6bc8341ed23c4a136c55 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Adela Coit's obituary. Source: International Women’s News, Journal of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, Nov 1932 https://heritage.humanists.uk/adela-coit/> Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Private Means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 47 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 30 Hyde Park Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5DJ Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Adela was born in 1863 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She married Dr Stanton Coit, her second husband, in 1898, and they went on to have 3 children. She had 3 children from a previous marriage. She attended the Berlin meeting, which formed the International Women's Suffrage Alliance in 1904, alongside her husband. She became a treasurer for the IWSA in 1908, a role she would continue until 1920. She joined the WSPU in 1907 but afterward transferred to the NUWSS. In 1912 she held a meeting for the Tax Resistance League, having left the WSPU, she was also a member of the first election fighting fund committee of the NUWSS and remained a member through to 1917. She complied with the 1911 census, alongside her husband, Stanton Coit. She was living with 5 of her children and a combination of 8 servants at 30 Hyde Park Gate in London. In 1912, she hosted a meeting on women's suffrage at St Clare's Castle in Ryde. The speakers were her husband and Mrs Archibald Mackirdy. The meeting was attended by prominent Island suffragette Mrs Russell Cooke. This meeting was the catalyst for the formation of the Ryde Branch of the NUWSS, as 30 members joined from the initial September meeting before the branch's first meeting in December of that year. In 1913, she also became a part of the executive committee of the London Society for Women's Suffrage. She was honoured as one of the pioneers of the International Suffrage Alliance at the 1929 jubilee congress. In her obituary in the journal for the IWSA, it was reported that her support remained consistent even during the war, when it was difficult for her as a German-born woman living in England. Adela died in October 1937. Sources: Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 18661928 (London, 1999). Contributed by Becca Aspden, URSS student researcher, History Dept., Warwick University Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Adela Coit Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-20222.61711577593 6710302.309241291) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/59a4dadab71f3ce33239da6ee0edad73.png a5e58b55c0fdc9f5d1dc7af6788ab4d5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Adela Pankhurst. Source: The London School of Economics (LSE) Library. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ad786aa4d623804899a7dbfc7ba8a594.png 81b315c77b0104570d2515d29039b995 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 45 Marlborough Road, Sheffield. Source: Google Maps 2019 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c908d4350a2684b15349941f166e10ee.jpg 8f780b1deb1db92d21797b105d5ae932 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Adela and Helen 'resist' the 1911 census and hold a mass evasion. The census official appears to have recorded his own contact details under name and address, most likely concerned about the illegalities of the protest and whether further questions would arise. Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e162fdbc2e04a3fe39e5419f2658e7e8.png 38755214791b7eb001108d536b7f2619 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Adela's husband Tom Walsh, 1925. Source: Fairfax Syndication. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a46ed7484925b1352bf5270638a253e1.png a52e51b1d612b8a9ebcef9d526fd98d3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Adela in later life. Source: The March of the Women Collection, Mary Evans Picture Library. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation WSPU organizer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 26 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 45 Marlborough Road, Sheffield Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Biographical Text Adela (1885-1961) was the youngest daughter of WSPU founder Emmeline Pankhurst and her husband Richard. Hence, Adela was embroiled in WSPU life from the society's earliest days. In 1906 (whilst working as an elementary school teacher) Adela was arrested along with Hannah Mitchell in Manchester for taking part in a WSPU demonstration and imprisoned for one week. Afterwards, she became WSPU organizer for Yorkshire, but also carried out work in Aberdeen, Cardiff and Bristol, where she was described by Emily Blathwayt as 'a dear little thing' who 'except when she speaks looks like a timid child'. Whilst campaigning in Dundee in 1909, Adela was arrested and imprisoned with Helen Archdale - with whom she later lived - among others for breach of the peace. Adela went on hunger strike and was described by the Scottish prison authorities as of 'the degenerate type' thus unsuitable for forcible feeding - a brutal practice sanctioned by the government and carried out on hunger striking suffragettes by prison authorities. Adela was released after just a few days. In 1911, Adela was organizing in Sheffield and living at Helen Archdale's family home. There the two women took part in the suffrage boycott of the 1911 government census on the evening of the 2nd April. Adela and Helen 'resisted' the census, but also hosted a mass evasion. That night almost 60 people slept over, strewn across various rooms in Helen's home - though press reports indicate there was much more partying that night than sleeping! (see Helen Archdale). By 1912, ill health and perhaps a dislike of the way the WSPU's militant and political tactics were going (Adela disagreed her mother and sister Christabel's loosening of ties with the Labour Party) meant that Adela gave up work for the WSPU. In summer that year, she attended Studley Agricultural College in Worcestershire, gained a Diploma, and afterwards worked as head gardener for Mrs Batten Pooll at Road Manor near Bath. However, Adela struggled to find work and so in 1914, she emigrated to Australia to take a post as organizer for the Women's Political Association in Melbourne. During the War years, it became the Women's Peace Army. Adela was a committed pacifist and socialist and in 1917 married fellow socialist Tom Walsh, a widower with three children. The couple went on to have four surviving children of their own. Shortly after marrying Tom, Adela spent nine months in prison for leading processions for the Women's Socialist League. She went on to perform key roles in the Australian Communist Party and later, in the antithetical Australian Women's Guild of Empire. She was interred in 1942, for supporting Japan's position during WWII. Afterwards, she worked as a nurse for children with learning difficulties. For more on Adela's life in Australia see: https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/the_home_front/stories/adela_pankhurst and for her husband see: https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/the_home_front/stories/tom_walsh. General sources: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London: 2001); Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester: 2014). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Adela Pankhurst Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-166720.89702441866 7053753.3773344755) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ed2e25bb912d6816b1fd5ce1966f38d5.jpg 2cf1cadf2e268a73be84a16cebfd602a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 47 & 50 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 16 Styvechale Avenue, Coventry Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Housewife Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Miss French' appears in the NUWSS newspaper the Common Cause in 1911 at which time she was joint secretary of the Coventry branch with (see) Averal Wilks. At that time Miss French is recorded as living at 'Daisy Bank' Middlesborough Road which was home to Frank Milner French and his sisters Miss Ada and Agnes French. The three were also sister and brother to Mr Edmund Oliver French, a successful Coventry businessman who was also president of the Coventry Liberal Association, later a city councillor and Justice of the Peace. Later in 1911, at the time of the goverment census survey, the siblings and servant Kate, lived at 16 Styvechale Road where Agnes and Ada are recorded as housewives. 'Miss French' is a regular feature at meetings of the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society (the local branch of the law abiding NUWSS) as well as acting for a time as joint secretary. But which Miss French - Agnes or Ada? This is currently unclear but there are later references to the presence of the 'Misses French' at various local women's suffrage events, suggesting both sisters were involved with votes for women campaigning. Ada also sat on Coventry Education Committee between 1921 and 1934. The two sisters were close, remaining unmarried and living together at Styvechale Road until their deaths in 1934 and 1940. Researcher: Tara Morton. Coventry research funded by Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agnes & Ada French Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-170172.95479277868 6872158.171509816) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d2a7cf2f256061c576142971bcccbb8c.jpg 02568a0d3e6e7b10f12b9f74dc6be694 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Agnes Bales circa 1910. Source: Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, 3 December, 1910. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Clerk to fine art publisher Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 35 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 5 Blenheim Place (now 37 Bath Parade) Cheltenham Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Agnes Bales was the only child of a respectable upper-working class family - her father being a domestic gardener but affording a large terraced house near the middle of the town. It is not known when she became involved in women's suffrage activities. She isn't named locally until being pictured alongside other key suffrage activists and the Mayoress, at a Sale of Work at the Town Hall - although she had written a letter to the London Daily News in February 1907, lamenting the lack of courtesy of 'gentlemen'. Agnes evaded the 1911 government census survey as part of the suffrage boycott and was probably with either Miss Eamonson and Miss Boult in College Road, or, at Miss Bardsley's Food Reform Guest House - both nearby and sheltering evaders. Agnes' claim to fame was her arrest in February 1913 for placarding a pillar-box in central Cheltenham and she is listed as one of only two Cheltenham prisoners in the Suffragette Fellowship Roll of Honour. She and Miss Boult and Miss Eamonson had been seen by a policeman sticking placards on a street lamp and pillar-boxes and were all prosecuted under a section of the Post Office Act. In court, Agnes had the confidence to point out that their act had not been destructive like those of the 'very militant' section of the movement (Cheltenham Examiner, 6 March, 1913). She was found guilty, refused to pay the 10s. fine and said she had 'no special property' to be distrained as she lived with her parents. Therefore, she was imprisoned for 14 days. Presumably, Agnes continued in her career, as the 1939 Register lists her as a retired publisher's secretary. She also retained her friendship with Ruth Eamonson as she and her widowed mother moved to a house next door to her in 1927. Agnes later moved back to Norfolk where she had been born, apparently with the help of the considerable legacy of £1,200 left to her in 1933 by a wealthy friend in the theosophy movement. She died in Norfolk in 1939. Researched and contributed by Sue Jones author of 'Votes for Women: Cheltenham and the Cotswolds' (The History Press, 2018). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agnes Bales Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-230706.86164967497 6781372.25016863) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d0f50d6f4ebb49b39451c7483295fbd2.jpg da549cf66388e32ec3cdbc325a09192f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Mapdata ©2017Google streetview https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b0438eb5dfe304392d7ad6d11edcb20d.jpg 47a65ef8d67f5153a9d9a1847e8e4635 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 63 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 12 Waverley Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Private means Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Miss Agnes Daniel was at a number of CUWFA meetings in 1911 and 1912. The CUWFA formed in 1908 to work peacefully and constitutionally for ‘the removal of the sex disqualification from the franchise’ by bringing Conservative and Unionist’s together. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agnes Ellen Daniel Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(-175212.31438510033 6862257.908728351) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b0bd75c984f0bc11d763641af94db405.jpg f085f9c9a620360f0529d1bd52fa2c6c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5e8cb682ecb77d4df0d629c9efbfc0e8.jpg 17e764cfacd403bd2b33eb1c519a86a2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a65d6229202ea62bc2ce96ba0cb28009.png 017e3ff4ebfa1f174eddd9516efe5c8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The Coventry Herald, 13 Dec, 1912. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 53 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 8 and 9 The Quadrant, Coventry Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Headmistress Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Born in London, Agnes had worked as headmistress at Sandwell Hall, West Bromwich, shortly before moving to Coventry. She served for many years as Headmistress at Coventry High School for girls, opened by her at the Quadrant. A College House was later added in Holyhead Road. Agnes' school was well provisioned - with a hockey and cricket field, tennis and swimming pool - it also took boarders and prepared pupils for all public examinations. During her time at the school, Agnes became a member of the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society (a local branch of the law abiding NUWSS) and in 1910 held a Votes for Women meeting at the Quadrant. Agnes eventually retired from the school due to failing eyesight, and in her leisure time enjoyed her involvement with the Coventry National History and Scientific Society as well as with the Coventry City Guild. She died on April 27th, 1929 aged 71 and her funeral service was held in Coventry Cathedral where she was a regular worshipper. In her will, Agnes left a stipend to her Assistant Headmistress at the school, Miss Mary Kemp, with the remainder of her estate being equally divided between her sister, brother and her friend and companion, Miss Margaret Elkins, 'as a reward for her unfailing and disinterested devotion to me'. Researcher: Tara Morton. Coventry research funded by Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agnes Letitia Atherstone Hales Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-168396.23404757597 6873671.29893331) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d2ec843940e869f5d6eabb3feb7ea016.jpg 7b56c280003faf06f39a4b141989dead Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Agnes Beddoe. Source: ‘How the Women’s Movement Began in Bristol Fifty Years Ago, 1918 ', LSE Digital Library’ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c5e3dbdaac209f85252864ef3ec9cfa7.jpg ba3a20c5a13bd9d0fbdb8f76967d834a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: Morning Post 14 Nov 1892 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cb8c040f96dd7fe4c5506fbb5e9e3b71.jpg d7a86387f15e6aa3ba1f2704502a6794 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 1911 census. Source: courtesy The National Archives https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9a261254b4f9fa08749366dc92d3318b.jpg 7ed9ea39f39248249aca37b406dad3a5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Suffrage banner featuring Agnes's name. Source: The Women's Library Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Wife of Doctor Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 81 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census The Chantry, Barton Orchard, Bradford-on-Avon BA15 1LU Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Agnes was born in Scotland in 1832. She married Dr John Beddoe, a physician and anthropologist, in 1852. She signed the 1866 suffrage petition, which was presented to parliament. She was a member of the first committee of the Bristol and Clifton branch of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage, which she remained on until her death. She spoke at talks across the country during the 1880s and presided over the grand demonstration held at Calston Hall in Bristol in 1880. Agnes was involved in the campaign to promote the Married Women's Property Act and lent her drawing room out in 1881 so Frances Power Cobbe could hold a series of lectures on the ‘duties of women’ to Bristolian women. In 1889, she became a member of the executive branch of the NUWSS and was also a member of the Women's Liberal Association. In that same year, she opened ‘Mrs Beddoe’s Working Women's Dwelling’ in Portland Square, Bristol. She let it out to 16 women who paid a sixpence for rent each. She later became a poor law guardian in 1896. While for the most part her activity centred around the NUWSS, she also lent some support to the WSPU, donating a small sum in 1909 and attending a Bath WSPU meeting front row in which Annie Kenney and Mrs Pankhurst were main speakers. Her husband died in 1911, but before his death, he was a supporter of the WSPU and president of the Bristol Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage. At the time of the 1911 census, she was living in Chantry House in Bradford upon Avon. Agnes died in 1914. She is featured on a banner honouring the early suffrage campaigners, which is currently held at the LSE Women’s Library. Sources: Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999); Reed, Hayley, 2016. ‘The Women behind the Suffrage Banner’, LSE History - Telling LSE’s Story <https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2016/06/08/the-women-behind-suffrage-banner/#:~:text=Agnes%20Montgomerie%20Beddoe%20was%20member,the%20Married%20Women's%20Property%20Act>. Contributed by Becca Aspden, URSS student researcher, History Dept., Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agnes Montgomery Beddoe Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-251159.87089251896 6682767.224238933) NUWSS