13 10 290 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bf7e5a8af1d233e6d6dd6bfa1471cce6.jpg 3ce5572ae41e46741aaac197ad36b7c3 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 Ethel in later life: Source: Newcastle University Library, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/60757fe80705708b44f4db4dd921301a.jpg 1be29c1bf3d443d3f64e80b9989dd954 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 Ethel as a child. Source: Newcastle University, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/17a8e105be89a8c990147c284b05335e.jpg e104a78e39912f37860bc81fe4f01477 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 Ethel as a young girl. Source: Newcastle University, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/21fbd4c0e786533a72628aedd5bd9056.jpg 64705a815b1663b5d5091e605d78dfa0 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 Ethel Oxford and Cambridge exam certificate. Source: Newcastle University, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9251947982915bb32025435232fd4fde.jpg 2990f72c1ff0d4c4c1089ebe32f7e90b 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 Letter (page 1) stating the quality of Ethel's learning at the London School of Medicine and at The Royal Free Hospital, London. Source: Newcastle University, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4fe6cf12cb0cdf457178f950a7b5c5fe.jpg 52d9063cf1c6ded9182c79d6ba892004 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 Letter (page 2) stating the quality of Ethel's learning at The London School of Medicine and the Royal Free Hospital, London. Source: Newcastle University, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/289c3a803f964713c5ef284b5012ce10.jpg 1537e1676d0028993f48316991e4d70e 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 The banner carried by Ethel on the NUWSS 'mud march' in 1907. Source: Newcastle University Library, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e958891921b1bbe77559691b05128b63.jpg 0a989c887b3eb1117ca2509f7b3c930c 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 The 1911 census form for 3 Osborne Terrace, Newcastle. Source: courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/20bc38e4e6ced43d5fc8ed712ae3aa7c.jpg 16abb75382eb9f96062cb35128a87330 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 Ethel in later life with a dog. Source: Newcastle University Library, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f8db30ba250c56f022c276e7765e607d.jpg 9792e7245f0a57afe8e32332c5bee45b 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 Ethel with sitar players and one other lady. Source: Newcastle University Library, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3af736a7868e745d336aebb45b7b72ed.jpg 3b3d52fe00f0c6b9812bae6d397b389a 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 Transcript (page 1) of notes for a presentation portrait to Ethel for her work and service, 1946. Source: Newcastle University, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1e0498a4849fa74a6e40eeee5a6c5330.jpg c02b9fc3e2163976344002d330f5a509 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 Transcript (page 2) of notes for a presentation portrait to Ethel for her work and service, 1946. Source: Newcastle University, Special Collections, 'Ethel Williams'. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b674789d62ceabb55ecef2891f26552e.jpg c39621f7bd40ffae0b43d7edc5d2e0c8 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 Image of the panel display about Ethel in the Reading Room for the Special Collections & Archives, Philip Robinson Library, Newcastle University (courtesy of). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Medical doctor Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 48 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 3 Osborne Terrace, Newcastle 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 Evades Biographical Text Ethel Mary Nucella Williams (1863-1948) was born in Cromer, Norfolk. Her father was a country squire and a friend of author Lewis Carroll. Her mother’s family had included William Harvey, the seventeenth-century physician famous for describing the circulation of the blood. Ethel was educated at Norwich High School and Newnham Cambridge, although she did not take a degree as women were not then permitted. She eventually took an MB in 1891, achieved an MD in 1895 at the London School of Medicine for Women, and returned to Cambridge securing a diploma in Public Health in 1899. She spent some time working in London at Clapham Maternity Hospital as a Medical Officer and at a dispensary for women and children in Blackfriars. She returned to Newcastle in 1906 as the city’s first woman doctor forming a joint practice with Ethel Bentham. That year, she was also the first woman to drive a car in Newcastle which would come in handy during her suffrage campaigning (see image). Like most women doctors of her generation, Ethel was concerned with the health needs of women and children and provided milk for infants at her own expense to try and reduce Newcastle’s appalling infant mortality rate. In 1909, she was appointed to the senate of Durham University and later became a member of the Newcastle Education Committee and Justice of the Peace. In 1917, Ethel co-founded the Northern Women’s Hospital (now the Nuffield Health Clinic on Osborne Road) and helped initiate residential care for boys with learning disabilities. She was also one of the earliest members of the Medical Women’s Federation founded in 1917 to further the interests of women doctors and patients. Ethel had a long association with campaign for female suffrage, signing the Declaration in Favour of Women’s Suffrage in 1889 and later became president to the Newcastle and District Women’s Suffrage Society (NUWSS). She took part in the NUWSS ‘mud march’ in 1907 and was also involved in suffrage processions and marches in Newcastle. The suffragist marching banner she may have carried in 1907 (see images) and possible on other marches is part of Newcastle University Library’s Special Collections and has been restored by the People's History Museum, Manchester. Despite belonging to the law abiding NUWSS, Ethel illegally evaded the government census survey in 1911 being deliberately absent from her address at 3 Osborne Terrace which she shared with (see) Frances Hardcastle, her lifelong companion. In the end, the census return (see image) was signed on her behalf in her absence by Helen Moss a locum doctor. Also present was Clementina Gordon, an organizing secretary for the NUWSS. This form of passive resistance suited Ethel and she also became a tax resistor. She began withholding her taxes while the highly anticipated Conciliation Bill was undergoing final readings in parliament. The bill, originated by a group of cross-party MPs, promised the vote to some women householders. When the bill was torpedoed by Asquith in 1912, Ethel refused to pay the taxes. In June 1913, she was one of 100 NUWSS members who left Newcastle, banners aloft, to join the great and arduous NUWSS Pilgrimage down to London. By 1915, she was chair of the North Eastern Federation of the NUWSS. When war broke out in 1914, Ethel severed her ties with the Liberal Party for their inaction on female suffrage and became more closely aligned with the programme of the Labour Party – though it is unlikely she joined it. She did join the Union of Democratic Control which campaigned for greater accountability in the making of British foreign policy and was secretary of the Newcastle Workers and Soldiers Council modeled on the Russian ‘soviets’ established after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II, and in which Special Branch took a keen interest, preventing many meetings from taking place. Ethel was also a founding member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (she was secretary of the Newcastle branch in 1934). In 1924 Ethel retired from medicine but remained actively involved in the peace movement. Sources: Special thanks to Mick Sharp for the digitized images from 'Ethel Williams', Special Collection Library, Newcastle University; Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London: 1999); 'Votes for Women: Newcastle's Own Radical Suffragist' at https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/tag/ethel-williams/ ; Ornella Moscucci ‘Ethel Williams’ https://womenvotepeace.com/women/ethel-williams-bio/ 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 Ethel Williams (Dr.) 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(-178580.95349552666 7358437.86825933) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/dbcd2cf70a2600bf8ab37e8d14198335.jpg 0536a8395e06f9eab9994a50207992de 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 for image: http://www.elisarolle.com/romance/images/EvaGoreBooth.jpg https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2551193e9bf2c8a7692e0436a1f22367.jpg 4bbb2449d7f894893fc469cbb2b6d5da 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 for image: https://www.makingthefuture.eu/img/asset/bWFpbi91cGxvYWRzL2V2YS1nb3JlLTEuanBn?w=1000&s=ee6842dbf05e0bf73fa681bd4dc7c255 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/79f887d43dbc1114c98de73795e3879b.jpg 79d5020703426eb48ed7fac120aae2e0 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 The 1911 census return for 4 Park Crescent where visitor Elizabeth Parker signs for 'Esther Roper, the occupier'. Source: courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5be287333c09ccad625aec03f621d013.png 135a891f00cf2a4a3e857f1b9edd15f6 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 4 Park Crescent is now part of the Victoria Park Hotel. Source: Google 2021. 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 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 Cringle Brook, 4 Park Crescent, Victoria Park, Manchester 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 Evades Biographical Text Born into a wealthy Irish family on 22 May 1870, Eva Gore Booth had an early awakening to her social conscience, witnessing the Irish famine of 1879. She was deeply moved by the experience of tenants coming to her home and begging for help, and she saw her mother’s efforts to help by setting up a school for women to learn needlework, to supplement their incomes and achieve financial independence. After extensive travel with her father during the 1890’s, Eva spent time in Italy – in part to recuperate from the respiratory illness she was beginning to endure. There she began writing poetry and in 1896, met the love of her life, Esther Roper. Eva’s poetry focused in Irish folklore, but also on love and sexuality, and she was one of the only women then writing about love between women. After meeting Esther, Eva moved to live with her in Manchester where she was an active, vociferous but non-violent campaigner for women’s labour rights from 1899 to 1913. Eva believed that women’s suffrage was crucial to gaining fair and equal treatment in the workplace, and in 1904, resigned from the Manchester & Salford Women’s Trade Union Council when they decided not to include the vote among their political demands for women. Eva and Sarah Dickinson set up the Manchester & Salford Women’s Trade Union and Labour Council to continue the campaign for the vote, putting forward parliamentary candidates in the 1906 and 1909 general elections. From 1906 onwards, Eva continued to campaign for women’s rights at work, and the vote. She wrote papers, letters and articles and spoke frequently at meetings and conferences, including Labour Party Conferences and the Fabian Society. In November 1911, she was a member of the delegation representing working women of the north of England who called upon Lloyd George not to drop the Conciliation Bill. Determined to learn everything she could about the conditions of women, Eva spent a brief period in 1911 working as a ‘pit brow lass’ (the women who moved the coal above ground). In Manchester, Eva and Esther lived together first in a small house in Heald Place, in Rusholme. In 1906, they moved to the leafier Victoria Park area – into a house called Cringle Brook (4 Park Crescent). This house is now part of The Victoria Park hotel. The 1901 census records the Heald Place as ‘jointly occupied’ and notes both women to be ‘secretaries’ of campaigning organisations. In 1911, both women appear to have evaded the census – the record for 4 Park Crescent is signed by Elizabeth Parker (visitor) ‘for Esther Roper, the occupier’ and there is no other record of Eva or Esther. The 1911 census boycott offered an opportunity for peaceful campaigners as well as 'suffragettes' to engage in an act of passive resistance although uptake among NUWSS members seems to have been scarce. Eva and Esther may have stayed at the 'mass evasion' sleepover going on at Denison House, just around the corner from their home in Park Crescent, and organized by (see) WSPU member Jessie Stephenson. In 1913, Eva and Esther moved from Manchester to Hampstead in London, to provide a healthier atmosphere for Eva, who continued to suffer from respiratory problems. During the war, both women became involved in welfare work and in the peace campaign. Eva died from intestinal cancer in 1926, and is buried in Hampstead with Esther. Eva's sister Constance, later became Countess Markievicz, Irish nationalist, suffragist, and the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. Sources: Sonia Tiernan, Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of Such Politics (Manchester, 2012); Emma Baldwin, Biography of Eva Gore Booth (Poemanalysis.com); Slaters' Manchester , Salford & Suburban Directory' 1909 p 955 and 1911 (Pt1) p 538 (University of Leicester, Special Collections online). Contributed by Evelyn Cook, Independent Researcher. 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 Eva Gore-Booth 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(-247385.1930359648 7067337.600600301) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/50619a5955ad98b69883344cc8de4809.jpg ce5063fd69a93c090825945ae7adb536 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 Lady Eva Baring. Source: courtesy of Friends of Northwood Cemetery www.friendsofnorthwoodcemetery.org.uk/burial-record/baring-lady-eva-hermoine https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c0f1cc25d5363749c2122d4a1fc35810.jpg df659e4e03475b89a59583fb76d4da0a 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 Lady Eva's family home 'Nubia House' on the Isle of Wight. Source: Friends of Northwood Cemetery www.friendsofnorthwoodcemetery.org.uk/burial-record/baring-lady-eva-hermoine https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/156275be72fb3ddbfae4624501775ade.jpg a14502c9d060fdffb87f30cc71b5ac6a 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 Lady Bearing speaks at meeting. Portsmouth Evening News 20 March 1907 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/66133be22c74f5891312deb92795caf7.jpg 3fb32ecce95ed1e3a76c9d61aa74c996 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 Lady Baring presides over meeting in Portsmouth. Hampshire Telegraph 14 Nov 1908 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5c3cacd28534ff3e42a949428916fc9f.jpg c89393d9f6c86c665aa6fb587b4c0b25 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/40396853ead8d939025b672e3c8e3bb1.jpg 133d96a202d59afd71c5440a244ae56e 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 records Lady Eva Baring in London. However, Nubia House in Cowes was her family home, where she spent time suffrage campaigning for the island. Source: courtesy The National Archives https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/71b4df1a2bb864dfc8dd4c6e92497098.jpg 1d01d40f1c6c3798300ac569c05437a0 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 1901 census showing Lady Eva and Godfrey at Nubia House https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/787691a37c8ef46c1c00fc49a515e8bc.jpg 44c28b1ae5aa1bbd9d0b4b7a0f50b96c 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 Lady Baring in 1929. Source: Courtesy and copyright The National Portrait Gallery https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0d47f834c51fa4d173e300f883337412.jpg 20eb86b3bef18e0837d00ec5cab1d557 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 Details of Lady Eva Baring's funeral. Source: Hampshire Advertiser 16 June 1934. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/757bdf66060f386ddf3fd2f052aba36f.jpg 7f93fd37192e20d5d7b3fcaf3082d0e7 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 Lady Baring's grave. Source: courtesy of Friends of Northwood Cemetery www.friendsofnorthwoodcemetery.org.uk/burial-record/baring-lady-eva-hermoine 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 34 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 Nubia House, Baring Road, Cowes PO31 8DH 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 Eva was born Eva Hermione Mackintosh in May 1876 in Inverness, Scotland. Her father, Alexander Aeneas Mackintosh, was the 27th chief of Mackintosh. Her Mother, Margaret Frances Graham, was the daughter of a Baronet. She married politician Godfrey Baring in 1898. They had four children, most notably Helen Azealea Baring, who was the lover of both the future king George VI and Prince George, Duke of Kent and part of the aristocratic group ‘Bright Young Things’. Godfrey was the liberal MP for the Isle of Wight from 1906-11 and was considered the father of the Isle of Wight County Council due to his 60 years of service. While living at the Nubia house in Cowes, Eva was active within the liberal associations on the island, expressing her belief in women’s suffrage. She was elected as executive of the Newport Women’s liberal association in 1906, and attended many meetings with the president, Mrs Russell Cooke. Eva, Like Mrs Russell Cooke, was a strong suffragist and did not support the militant suffragettes' actions. She was president of the Cowes Women’s Liberal association by 1907, and she chaired multiple meetings for her branch and beyond. In November 1908, she chaired a Portsmouth town hall meeting on women's suffrage attended by Lady Frances Balfour and the Liberal MP for Portsmouth. Mrs Baring was popular with the island's liberals, as the audience at a Freshwater liberal meeting in 1909, which she attended with her husband, requested she make a speech on women's suffrage. She used her position to sponsor a ball in aid of the London Society for Women’s Suffrage in June 1909, which was attended by the likes of Lady Castlereagh and Lady Frances Balfour. Eva complied with the 1911 census, in which she is recorded as living at 195 Queens Gate, London, very near to the Royal Albert Hall. As the wife of an MP and a member of the aristocracy, the family had a home in London to be close to the centre of politics and society itself. However, she has been plotted on the map at her main home on the Isle of Wight. This was the family home and the place where she actively engaged in the suffrage movement impacting her home community. During the Second World War, Eva was the commandant of Northwood Auxiliary Hospital, which was opened in 1915 after the War Office requisitioned it to be used as a Red Cross military hospital. Her service led her to be given an M.B.E. by King George V in his 1919 New Year's honours. In 1920, she became the first woman on the Isle of Wight to be appointed a country magistrate. She was the chairman of the Isle of Wight women’s nursing association as well as a member of the county education committee for the island. She was also the country commissioner of the Girl Guides. Eva passed away on the 9th of June 1934 while visiting her stepsister Lady Helen Cassel at Putteridge Bury, Luton. She had gone to stay there after being taken ill in London a month before. Her funeral in Cowes was widely attended by nobility with whom she socialised and was an integral part - Prince George and Princess Beatrice sent a wreath, as Eva had hosted the royal family during Cowes Week regatta multiple times - but also by nurses and Girl Guides who attended to “give their last salute to a former chief” demonstrating the social breadth of Eva's life and work. Sources: Mosley, Charles, Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons (Stokesley, Burke’s Peerage & Gentry, 2003); Beauclerk, Peter, Burke’s Landed Gentry of Great Britain (Routledge, 2001). 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 Eva Hermoine Baring (Lady) 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(-145910.41136850885 6579850.711925557) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5b4b556611c4d466ddfbd77a03820bbb.jpg 78bfa8b304265a9b4f83798917d49fda Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Wife Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 27 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 Southover Grange, Southover, Lewes, East Sussex 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 Eva was born in 1884, in Alverstoke, Hants. In 1908, she married London barrister, Thorold Stewart-Jones and moved to Southover Grange in Lewes where, in 1911, the couple lived with Thorold's mother, their children and a retinue of servants. Eva was the first president of the Lewes Women’s Suffrage Society (affiliated to the NUWSS) and in 1910, she tried (unsuccessfully) to persuade Lewes’ new MP, William Campion, to support women’s rights. Eva was also a member of the Church of England Temperance Society and a delegate to its national conference in Brighton. She and her husband had four children and Eva was pregnant with a fifth when Thorold was killed in the First World War on the Western Front in 1915. She erected a war memorial to the fallen from Southover, outside Southover Church, and her husband’s name also appears on the Lewes war memorial. Eva died on the 31st of May 1942, in Chelsea. Contributed by Dr. Diana Wilkins, freelance art historian and curator. For more see Frances Stenlake ' The Lady Fired Splendidly: Lewes and the Women's Suffrage Campaign' Sussex Archaeological Collections 152 (2014) 139-152. Available for free via https://archaeologydataservice.ac.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 Eva Stewart-Jones 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(1030.818484602222 6598448.759661814) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/36fc8af4779bf17fa04f3f46b591547e.png bd94f28a2c9de37ca7eccf39e465c139 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 Evelina Haverfield circa 1910. Photograph by Lena Connell courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e2ceb1ef5326dd5360c95392875bce85.jpg e938f20444bae6e20cbe3eb8f4c9353c 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 Evelina Haverfield in Court seated next to WSPU leader Mrs Pankhurst, 1909. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1e619fbc813c4eee8ae3dc0cb501242c.png a709e9b77872711801d363ecea98ee4f 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 Evelina's 'Peace Cottage' in Brendon, North Devon, used by she and Vera Holme until Evelina's death in 1920. Source: https://www.geograph.org.uk/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bc75aa4627b2b5d95323db92fec5d276.png 13b023759cd6c3624339d7687edff804 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 Evelina Haverfield (centre) in SWH uniform, with Vera Holme (left), 1916. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/27287a856c1ee91aa9f873d384fb74b3.jpg a07ea631305640dbb35dcd7e16372cc2 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 Evelina's well tended grave in Bajina Bashta, Serbia. Source: https://ljwanderer.livejournal.com/229543.html?thread=1109671 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None 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 Peace Cottage, Brendon, North Devon. 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 Evades Biographical Text Evelina Haverfield (1867-1920) was born Evelina Scarlett in Scotland and was the youngest daughter of the 3rd Baron Abinger. The young Evelina was a keen horsewoman and in 1887 married Major Henry Haverfield, moved to Dorset, and had two sons. After her husband’s death in 1895, she remarried, spending two years with her husband in South Africa founding a retirement camp for abandoned horses while her sister, a qualified doctor, investigated conditions in British concentration camps for a commission headed by Mrs Millicent Fawcett, later leader of the NUWSS. However, her second marriage was not a happy one. Evelina had kept the Haverfield name from her first marriage, and after returning to Dorset, the couple drifted apart. Evelina was likely a member of the local NUWSS branch in Dorset from the 1890s, but in 1908 switched allegiance to the WSPU. She gave generously to the society as well as donating to others and took part in varied suffrage events and activities. For instance, she was involved in the NUWSS caravan campaign in June 1909, where her horsemanship proved invaluable dealing with the caravan carthorses. Later that month, she was arrested after taking part in the WSPU deputation from Caxton Hall to the House of Commons and was defended by (see) Lord Robert Cecil (MLWS). In 1910, she was a mounted marshal for the WSPU processions on the 18th of June and 22nd of July; riding alongside (see) Vera Holme with whom she became romantically involved for the rest of her life. In November, she was arrested and charged with assaulting a policeman during the violent scuffles that broke out at a suffragette protest dubbed ‘Black Friday’. She was reported to have said about striking the policeman: ‘It was not hard enough. Next time I will bring a revolver’. Her fine was paid without her consent so she did not go to prison, but she did serve two weeks imprisonment shortly afterwards for attempting to break through a police cordon during a bout of window smashing following the government’s torpedoing of the Conciliation bill. In 1914, Evelina left the WSPU and joined Sylvia Pankhurst’s breakaway society the East London Federation of the WSPU becoming honorary treasurer, and later joined the United Suffragists. At the outbreak of War, she helped launch the Women’s Emergency Corps; founded the Women’s Volunteer Reserve becoming Commandant; served briefly as Commander-in-chief of the Women’s Reserve Ambulance Corps (forerunner of the WAAC); and in 1915, spent two years in Serbia and Russia in charge of the transport column of the Scottish Women’s Hospital to which Vera Holme belonged as driver and mechanic. In 1918, she co-founded with Flora Sandes a fund for promoting comforts for Serbian soldiers and prisoners and returned to Serbia to found an orphanage, dying shortly afterwards of pneumonia in 1920. Upon her death, Vera Holme became administrator of the fund and home Evelina had founded for Serbian orphans and was granted £50 a year for life in Evelina’s will. In 1929, a new health centre was built in Evelina’s memory in Bajina Bashta, Serbia, where she is buried (see image), and a street has been dedicated to her. Main source: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999). 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 Evelina Haverfield (The Honourable) 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(-419761.4207545197 6660086.594315042) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2f44808bdd48962190fb0e944476556f.jpg d8976451570d98444b9642b1f68c9a5d 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: Windows on Warwickshire, Heritage and Culture, WCC. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/020ee50f6ffa1b01c24876da4dee36ca.jpg 8169092b86b47facc4512909efabc9d3 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 Dewar family at Mayfield, c. 1894. Esther is second on the left, seated on her father William’s knee. Source: Windows on Warwickshire, Heritage and Culture, WCC. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f74bd38d450d95f489df04a1dbb411b1.jpg b89f417cc3b35e21d89c0b0b663d3993 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 25 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Mayfield, Horton Crescent, Rugby Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Assistant school mistress 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 Dewar was likely Evelyn Esther Dewar (BA) Assistant school mistress at Rugby school who appears at several combined NUWSS and Warwickshire CUWFA meetings in 1911. She lived in Mayfield House, Horton Crescent, near to Rugby School and was one of many teachers that campaigned for the vote. The NUWSS was the largest women's suffrage society in the country and believed in attaining the vote for women by peaceable and constitutional methods. Contributor/researcher: Tara Morton. 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 Evelyn Esther Dewar 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(-140113.2898276779 6867177.634603401) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f984166b7d584d26f707c2d7aa56c883.jpg 0d50e56efbda4045f43b1a2489e9fe2f Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Domestic nurse, author and suffrage worker Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 36 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 48 Rutland Gardens, Hove, Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Biographical Text Evelyne Charlotte Middleton Close (1875-1935) was born in Plumstead, the third of five children of Prudence and Richard Close, clergyman. In 1901 Evelyne was a domestic nurse in the household of Rev. Frederick Lewis Donaldson, his wife Sarah and their five children in St. Mark’s, Leicester. While in Leicester, Evelyne joined the Women’s Social and Political Union. She spoke in support of Mrs Pankhurst at a meeting in September 1907. In February 1908 at Welford Coffee House, Leicester, Evelyne moved a resolution calling for the release of members of the Women’s Freedom League sentenced to imprisonment. According to ‘Votes for Women’, she contributed 2s 6d to the £20,000 fund in April 1908. By 1911 Evelyne was living at 48, Rutland Gardens, Hove with her mother Prudence, aunt Naomi and sisters, Kate and Ethel. On the census form, Evelyne describes herself as a domestic nurse, author and suffrage worker. In the column headed ‘Infirmity’ the word ‘Disenfranchised’ was written making Evelyne along with her sister Ethel census resisters. Her older sister Katherine Close evaded the 1911 census for 48 Rutland Gardens, Hove as did her married sister (see) Elizabeth Close Shipham in Lewisham. Evelyne Close’s first novel ‘The Harvest’ was published in 1911 and was advertised in ‘The Vote’. In October 1911 she gave a speech to Greenwich Church League for Women’s Suffrage (CLWS) where her sister, Elizabeth was Branch secretary. At the AGM in February 1912, the Brighton and Hove CLWS elected Katherine Close Branch Secretary so sisters Evelyne and Ethel also joined the committee. Meetings were held at 48 Rutland Gardens, Hove until an office was rented in Brighton in 1913. The CLWS General Council meeting was held in July 1913 in Brighton and Hove and organised by Katherine Close and the rest of the committee. Evelyne’s employer in 1901, Rev Frederick Lewis Donaldson, attended the meeting. Evelyne gave a lecture on infant mortality in January 1914 to the CLWS. She published ‘The Roll of Honour’ in 1915, one of the earliest novels to reflect the war and it received good reviews. Evelyne went on to publish several more novels throughout her career. She died in Hove in 1935. Researched & contributed by local and family historian Margaret Scott who is related to the Shipham family. 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 Evelyne Close 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(-20515.402913909 6591657.94446408) CLWS Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Biographical Text Fanny Gladys was born in Bradford. She is sometimes referred to as Fanny, sometimes Gladys, and sometimes as Miss F G Roberts. She was a former solicitor’s clerk who had taken a typing course in Bradford and was the Secretary of Bradford WSPU in 1908 where she chalked caricatures and rhymes on blackboards placed on the street following the Bradford Corporation’s forbidding of pavement chalking to advertise meetings. In the summer of 1909, she was helping Helen Watts in Nottingham and was based at 6 Carlton Street – an address also given by Nelly Crocker in an advert for underwear to be sold at a WSPU Christmas Fair. Fanny was imprisoned in 1909 and 1911 for breaking Post Office windows and her name is on an embroidered suffragette handkerchief held in the Sussex Museum. She cannot be traced on the 1911 census so may have been an evader. She and Nellie Crocker took over at the Nottingham WSPU office in about mid-1911. In 1912, Nelly Crocker and Fanny were both imprisoned for three months in Holloway Prison for breaking windows with hammers at the Post Office on the King’s Road Chelsea, London. They went on hunger strike and were forcibly fed. The two returned to Nottingham in June 1912 and were given a celebratory supper. Fanny then disappears until 1939 when she is recorded as secretary to an Orthopaedic Surgeon, Professor Garthorne Robert Girdlestone, in Oxfordshire. By then Fanny was living in Oxfordshire with Dorothy Vincent Carey. She died in 1975. Source: No Surrender :Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire - NWHG. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Occupation Solicitors clerk Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 23 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 6 Carlton Street, Nottingham 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 Evades 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 Fanny Roberts 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(-127473.06208454112 6974395.7622567285) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7aecd95a1947c77a15acf53f0c9a6e1e.png 8101b75edcefeedcd921dda31a649035 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 pilgrims at Clayton, 1913. Flora Merrifield is centre wearing spectacles. Source: Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d175e7f79a4a31f45fddde42798274fc.png de447cbc9f2770917832f3a9ff94adef 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 pilgrims at Clayton, 1913. Flora is centre. Inscription reverse reads: '21 Jul the Brighton Road’ pilgrimage. Miss Merrifield, the organiser of the ‘Brighton Road’ Pilgrimage standing in front immediately between the figures in the van. The cycle corps, arranged in a row, warn motorists of the approach on the pilgrims, & sell the ‘Commom Cause’’. Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8344bd0cf20738bd66e04c10304626cd.jpg 7c08e25addf95413e71a3573984e773c 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/5432ee21e82e0ccb31a7358ae54bcbdf.png b33bc7d4c4fca3bdc815de71bfb26ca0 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 Clifton Terrace, Brighton in the 1880s. Source: The Regency Society https://sbpc.regencysociety.org/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7d34ab3fe8346f8aa1de65345cd73583.JPG 1534878ba1e51e864212f943cf2e1a14 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 Impression of Flora in the 1920s. Source: Illustration created and contributed by Malcolm Bull. 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 55 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unmarried Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 14 Clifton Terrace, Brighton. 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 Occupation Private means Biographical Text Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, born in Brighton in 1856, retained the name of her maternal grandfather, Colonel Victor Pierre-Jean de Gaudrion, of Saint-Malo in Brittany. Her father, barrister Frederick Merrifield, became Clerk to both East and West Sussex County Councils. He and his wife were NUWSS leader Millicent Garret Fawcett’s strongest supporters when she delivered her first suffrage speech in Brighton in 1870. Following her mother’s death in 1894, Flora remained at home with her father at 14 Clifton Terrace, with, according to the 1911 Census, a cook, parlourmaid and housemaid. In 1908 Flora became secretary of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society, not only arranging meetings in the town itself, but undertaking ‘outreach’ along the coast and inland. The BHWFS became affiliated to the NUWSS and the meeting to inaugurate the Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire Federation of NUWSS branches was held at Flora’s home in 1910. Flora and fellow members attended NUWSS Council meetings and took part in NUWSS ‘demos’ in London, and Flora led the Brighton Road contingent in the July 1913 Great Suffragist Pilgrimage to the capital. At the outbreak of WWI, Flora organised a local relief committee, and in 1916 was joint secretary of Brighton’s Patriotic Housekeeping Exhibition, held under the auspices of the NUWSS. Following the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, she became chair of the Brighton and Hove Union for Women’s Local Government and Equal Citizenship, the successor to the BHWFS . In 1920 she attended the 1920 International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Congress in Geneva, taking up the cause of the newly-formed League of Nations. When she resigned from the executive committee of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (the NUWSS's successor) in 1927, tribute was paid to her work ‘that extended over many years’. She died in Surrey in 1943. Contribute by: Independent researcher & writer Frances Stenlake. 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 Flora (de Gaudrion) Merrifield 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(-16391.4610585554 6590647.90861549) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b975e1db703efb6c3a7d94c667580ff8.png 3cca52d3f32fbc9ce35023c52199ed99 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 Florence in 1925. Source: The Library of Congress (Digital I.D www.loc.gov/resource/mnwp.159031/) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8d6a1726506da24444fe52152f5104b9.jpg fff5a8d43c6d9d9b9e4fb4736f8354c0 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 Photograph of the International Advisory Committee of National Woman's Party - at American Woman's Club - in London, 1925. (Left to right, seated) Alice Paul, Elizabeth Robins, Viscountess Rhondda, Dr. Louisa Martindale, Mrs. Virginia Crawford, Dorothy Evans, (standing), Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Alison Neilans, Florence Underwood, Miss Barry. Source: Library of Congress www.loc.gov/resource/mnwp.159031/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b1a90946a86dffa1119d37607180516a.jpg b53833e5b43bd2b583582eb70b8e5ce6 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/205809ee385a0c2b27fc9065cb74e4cb.jpg f8df5138c70729ef06c3aabf7ed393f2 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 CWSS banner. Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e1a6ac53181d50b0305881ec406a278f.jpg 9e25120c491661b7db50427653062b36 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 Liverpool CWSS Pamphlet. Source: Marij van Helmond, Votes for Women: The Events on Merseyside, 1870-1928 (1992) p.68. 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 25 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 66 Park Road South, Birkenhead 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 Complies Biographical Text Florence Barry (1885-1965) was a committed suffragist, a determined women’s rights activist, and a respected feminist. As leader of the Catholic feminist organisation the St Joan’s Social & Political Alliance she championed women’s rights within the Catholic Church. She was born in Birkenhead on 14th May 1885 to Frances and Zacharie Barry (Bahri). Often described as a Persian immigrant, Zacharie was born in Smyrna (modern day Izmir, Turkey) and referred to himself as a Naturalised British Subject. Mr. Barry was a successful fruit merchant, specialising in the import and export of sultanas. Sources refer to Florence’s mother Frances as a charity worker of Austrian heritage. Florence’s baptism record is not available online but considering her later career and that her older siblings were baptised in a Liverpool Catholic church, it is reasonable to assume that Florence was baptised a Catholic. In 1901 Florence was attending the Convent School for Young Ladies in Upton, Wirral. The origins of Florence’s suffrage campaigning are unclear, but she was first a member of the Women’s Social & Political Union (WSPU) possibly affiliated with the Birkenhead branch. Initially, she did not see the need for a separate suffrage society for Catholic women, but by 1912, her view had changed, and she became a member of the Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society (CWSS). The CWSS, founded in March 1911, was initially a London organisation but quickly grew, and Liverpool was one its first ‘provincial’ branches. Despite then belonging to the WSPU, Florence complied with the 1911 Census (see image). Was Florence’s compliance the start of her shift away from the WSPU? Possibly, but allegiance to the WSPU did not guarantee a boycott of the census. For example, celebrated Liverpool suffragette (see) Patricia Woodlock who was arrested and imprisoned several times did not take part in the boycott either. Interestingly, Patricia also had links to Liverpool CWSS, so perhaps the women’s decision to comply was influenced by their religious affiliations? By 1913, Florence was Honorary Secretary of Liverpool CWSS and in 1915 joined the CWSS National Executive Committee. By 1919, she was leading the society under its new name the St Joan’s Alliance. Under her leadership the organisation flourished becoming a powerful Catholic feminist group. Florence was also a founding member of the Open-Door Council and in 1927, co-signed a letter to The Times newspaper supporting the vote for women over the age of 21. In recognition for her hard work and dedication Florence was awarded “'Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice' by the Catholic Church in 1951. Key sources: Krista Cowman, Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother: Women in Merseyside's Political Organisations 1890-1920, (2004); Marij van Helmond, Votes for Women: The Events on Merseyside 1870-1928 (1992). Contributed by Jo Donnelly, Women's History Blogger, www.theherstorianmum.co.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 Florence Barry 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(-338515.1130493401 7055524.889640817) WSPU