2 10 286 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/5e0b838b07abdb4250758c340df88d09.jpg c95f5f443fc97068aa8b130e0901f190 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 A young Margaret Russell Cooke then known as 'Maye Dilke'. Source: Courtesy & copyright of The National Portrait Gallery https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e4cdc8294e0db343a6c9998436f13108.jpg 42e859ab690e58026fe897691c394bf4 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 A young Margaret Russell Cooke then known as 'Maye Dilke'. Source: Courtesy & copyright of The National Portrait Gallery. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ceef0eb9c1245bf923f72e3a739f8ed8.jpg 20a313bb197ccbbbcf08fe988781008c 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 Bellecroft House. Margaret was away from home, likely abroad. Source: Courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b3a6d782d4f85143e6f47dab1d6ee364.jpg a8a8352227b10506a2c7fb32dda9e330 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 Bellecroft House. Source: © Rev Robert Rudd, Historic England Archive https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d609e2ede25a13bc62e6bfe105cc998e.jpg 2cfce70e67b57599dc55b3d8f2636e09 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 Isle of Wight Observer, 3 May 1913 . https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2636053e204039f5b460daff84370826.jpg 22a87212026109df84fb8d7681467fa1 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 Isle of Wight County Press, 2 April 1911 reporting Margaret as away from home. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ff836ca71d53a85992a1548703cc904f.jpg 2423b83cb23cdf0e0d5009bed669b374 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 Isle of Wight Times, 15 May 1913, noting Margaret's contribution to a woman suffrage debate. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7b0e17d6087ad6b36397309d4e209ba7.jpg 5ba0b85541c142c6b88ff1e617745249 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 Isle of Wight County Press 15 Jan 1908 reporting on Margaret and Eva Baring (see map) stressing the difference between suffragists and suffragettes at a local meeting https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1ee8b933d6706dd5cf966f453c289336.jpg 8d51414f21c50de6ef193291fda4d76b 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 Margaret's obituary in the Evening Mail 25 May 1914. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ebd8ea8a506df8553ad185303bb47a56.jpg cd94fdd1d93bf0f6eb30f583f21ca2d3 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 Margaret staying at the family home. Source: courtesy The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Living on own means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 54 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Widowed Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Bellecroft House, 79 Staplers Rd, Newport PO30 2DG 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 Margaret was born in Hampton, Middlesex, on the 4th of September 1857 as Margaret Mary Smith. She was the eldest child of Thomas Eustace Smith, a shipowner and Liberal MP for Tynemouth, and Martha Mary Dalrymple. She was brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her childhood home was destroyed by a suffragette arson in 1914. She was educated in Orleans, where she passed the public exam to become a French schoolmistress. She married Ashton Dilke in 1876, and they had 3 children until Ashton died in 1883. In 1886, she gave evidence in the divorce proceedings of her sister, Virginia Crawford, the founder of the catholic women’s Suffrage Society. Her testimony was loyal to her sister and incriminated her brother-in-law, politician Sir Charles Dilke. From 1879, Margaret was an active member of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage, becoming a member of its executive board in 1883. In 1885, she published a book called “Women’s Suffrage” with a foreword from MP William Woodhall and contributed to an article in 1889 that was a response to an anti-suffragist appeal against women’s suffrage. Alongside the suffrage movement, she was a member of the London school board and advocated for free education from 1888-1891. Margaret attended the International Council of Women in Washington in 1888, travelling with Alice Scatcherd and Laura Ormiston Chant. Margaret married William Russell Cooke, a lawyer and legal advisor for the Liberal Party, in 1891 at Kensington parish church. They had two sons together. Margaret became treasurer of the Central National Society for Women’s Suffrage in 1896. She also became active in the Women’s Emancipation Union in the same year. She advocated in 1897 for the creation of a national council of women to represent all the societies' women took part in. She also opposed provisions which would have curtailed the role of women in local government in 1899 and fought for seats for female shop assistants who worked long hours. After the death of her second husband, William, in 1903, she settled on the Isle of Wight at Bellecroft House in Newport. The house was in the family, as she visited her parents at Bellecroft in 1901 while the census was taking place. On the Island, she worked to form the island's suffragist movement. In 1908, Margaret spoke at a liberal meeting alongside Mrs Baring, who expressed her suffragist views were not the same as the militant suffragettes which the meeting had criticised. Margaret also spoke about education reform on the island, continuing from her days on the London school board. Margaret is absent from the 1911 census with only two servants being recorded at Bellecroft. A newspaper report dated the 22nd of April 1911, thanking those who sent flowers for a church easter festival, records her as away from home. We can reasonably assume she was abroad at this time, as she is not recorded as a visitor elsewhere in the country during the census and as a suffragist we can surmise would otherwise have complied with the census. Margaret was also a part of a town hall debate in Ryde in which she debated against Miss Gladys Potts of the National League Against Women’s Suffrage in May 1913. Margaret continued her support for the cause while battling illness and just weeks before her death, supported the formation of a Newport branch of the NUWSS at the beginning of May 1914 and was the vice president. She held a general meeting at her home, Bellecroft. Margaret died there on the 19th of May 1914. Her eldest son from her second marriage, Sidney Russell Cooke, went on to become a liberal parliamentary candidate and continued to live at Bellecroft. Sources: MacColl, N & Baigent, E, "Dilke, Ashton Wentworth (1850–1883), traveller and politician" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Date of access 2 Aug 2025; 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 Margaret Mary Russell Cooke 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(-142436.43528112577 6568777.606138746) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c3598a43a2479a086b27f7073950049d.jpg 1b8fd6f52049e366b93866115d09e796 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 Anna Maria is on the left with Margaret Tanner standing, and Mary on the right. Source: courtesy of Alfred Gillett Trust https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ed613f902eb84986e38ca8bc7844161b.png aa2aa08a2570c21c2da9e2645bfce001 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 Anna Priestman later in life. Source: How the Women’s Movement Began in Bristol Fifty Years Ago, 1918 , courtesy LSE Digital Library. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3a1c0e7b3545488c813c132d993b9791.jpg 2cf7b14fd179856083d5364fa83b05db 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 record. Source: courtesy The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Unknown Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 83 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 37 Durdham Park, Redland, Bristol BS6 6XF 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 Anna Maria was born in Newcastle in 1828. Her mother, Rachel Bragg, was a prominent anti-slavery agitator. Alongside her sister, Mary, she signed the 1866 suffrage petition. Anna Maria and Mary moved to Bristol in 1870, living at 37 Durdham Park for the rest of their lives. In 1870, Anna Maria joined the committee of the Bristol and West of England Society for Women’s Suffrage, of which she was still a member in 1908. In 1870, alongside her sister, Anna Maria refused to pay tax, leading to their dining chairs being removed in place of the taxation payment. They were returned after their fine was anonymously paid. In 1881, alongside Emily Sturge, Anna Maria formed the first women's liberal association that would only support candidates who agreed with women’s enfranchisement. Anna Maria favoured the mobilisation of the middle and lower classes, leading to her raising £1000 for the Bristol and West England branch of the national suffrage to support organising activities and work. After the 1884 women’s suffrage movement amendment failed, Anna Maria focused on the women’s liberal association and supporting enfranchisement. After the split in the central committee for women’s suffrage in 1888, she remained with the central national society and became a member of their executive committee. Anna Maria formed the union of practical suffragists in 1896 after a defeat in maintaining the WLF's support for candidates who did support women’s enfranchisement. She wrote a pamphlet entitled ‘Women and Votes’, published by the union in 1896. This seemed a success in 1903 when the WLF agreed to only support candidates that also supported enfranchisement, but in 1905, she was removed as president of the Bristol and West England women’s liberal association. After this, Anna Maria and Mary joined WSPU in 1907, donating £25 in 1908 and continuing to contribute in 1909. Anna Maria and her sister contributed to the election expenses of George Lansbury, a suffrage candidate supported by Christabel Pankhurst. Anna Maria complied with the 1911 census, by this time she was apart of the NUWSS. As a pacifist, Anna Maria, with her sister Mary, attended the peace conference in Berne in 1892, an international forum concerning issues of international conflict. Anna Maria died within 5 days of her sister Mary in 1914, it has been inferred that neither could handle the prospect of the looming Great War. Contributed by Becca Aspden, URSS student researcher, History, Warwick University. Sources: Crawford, E. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999) pp. 565-67; Liddington, J. Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester University Press, 2014) p.319. 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 Anna Marie Priestman 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(-291024.0899848805 6705718.838145269) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ce70b5522dfd57a8a39bef17a6a2e193.jpg 10f081544de986e30863571142911cfc 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 Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 53 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 Red House, Muster Green, Haywards Heath, 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 Mary Spooner was the second of ten children of an interesting family. A sister, Kate Lee, a founder member of the English Folk Song Society, recorded the Sussex folk singing family, the Coppers, as early as the 1890s. Mary first came to notice as a suffrage campaigner in Sussex in 1909 with ‘an eloquent speech’ at the Cuckfield Debating Society. This had been formed earlier that year with, on its committee, Edith Bevan and Edith Payne, who shortly afterwards founded the Cuckfield Women’s Suffrage Society. Mary was a practised and accomplished speaker: as secretary of the Southern Section of Women’s Co-operative Guilds, she had spent almost 20 years addressing meetings in London and the South-East that resulted in the formation of local branches of the WCG. Mary had subscribed to both the London Women’s Suffrage Society and the Women’s Freedom League (WFL) but having taken up residence in Haywards Heath with her mother and sister Edith, she contributed her skills to the fledgling Cuckfield Women’s Suffrage Society, launching its series of monthly ‘At Homes’ in Cuckfield’s Queen’s Hall with ‘a capital address’. In early 1910 she chaired a meeting at the Co-op Hall in Haywards Heath to form a Haywards Heath NUWSS branch, becoming its secretary then chair. Also, in 1910, Mary succeeded the Dowager Countess of Chichester as the only woman on the Haywards Heath Board of Council School Managers, and, despite, as she said ‘being a comparative stranger in the Parish’, joined Edith Payne on the Haywards Heath Board of Poor Law Guardians replacing the only other woman Guardian who was resigning. Throughout 1910 and 1911 Mary continued to speak at meetings to do with forming local NUWSS branches. At Horsted Keynes she spoke on one occasion with Louisa Martindale and Marie and Charles Corbett; and on a second with Brighton’s Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield. With the Surrey, Sussex and Hamps NUWSS Federation organiser, Barbara Duncan, she held a successful meeting to form a Burgess Hill branch and spoke at Lindfield with Lady Betty Balfour in the hope of establishing a branch there. With Rose Chute Ellis, she addressed the first public women’s suffrage meeting in Danehill. On Monday 21 July 1913, Mary was among supporters waiting at Muster Green, Haywards Heath, to join the Suffrage Pilgrims marching up from Burgess Hill to Cuckfield, and she set off with them from Cuckfield the following morning. She was at the Hyde Park rally at the end of that week with Edith Bevan, Edith Payne, Rose Chute Ellis, Susan Armitage, Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, and Alys Russell. During the War, Mary continued to demonstrate her abilities as an organiser. She and Kate Miller, whose husband Douglas had photographed the Suffrage Pilgrims, were Haywards Heath contacts for the NUWSS appeal for women forage workers. Mary worked with Rose Chute Ellis and others to inaugurate the Cuckfield Children’s Welfare Society, an Infant Welfare Centre and a Haywards Heath Council of Social Welfare and she chaired the committee of the Haywards Heath War Work Guild. Sources: Queen Co-operative News, Woman’s Signal London, Home Counties local weekly newspapers, Women’s Franchise, Common Cause, Mid Sussex Times, West Sussex County Times, Bognor Regis Observer, Kent, and Sussex Courier. Contributed 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 Mary Spooner 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(-12109.779484769779 6621311.233790915) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/dd1f22018c1f586f74f53eb1673d1507.jpg d8803bfd708796634315681034af6410 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 View of Slaithwaite from Manchester Road by Florence Lockwood, circa 1922. Courtesy Kirklees Museums & Galleries. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c096fc10657d33b31e8f47627be36786.jpg c6d537495ffef6418382e713497c85f9 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 Lockwood 1911 census. Courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/04b9b068d6ee989fc50154576e82b3d3.jpg fa7182c96c4e5163846616ad0ef959c2 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 View from Milnsbridge looking towards Longwood and Golcar by Florence Lockwood, circa 1922. Courtesy of Kirklees Museums & Galleries. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/03d17c44e64356e110638932738c67dc.jpg 93d446dd32820fd04a50743343a32ff9 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 Huddersfield NUWSS branch banner designed by Florence Lockwood and completed in 1911. Courtesy Tolson Museum; Kirklees Museums & Galleries and West Yorkshire Archive Services. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d458bdf4e9745d2a5a7afa6d769d5537.jpg 1eaa266293036d6ed00ff03729605d82 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 Photo of Florence Lockwood's diary. Courtesy of West Yorkshire Archives Service & Kirklees Museums & Galleries. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Artist Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 49 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 Black Rock House, Linthwaite, Huddersfield, Yorkshire 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 Florence Lockwood was born in 1861 in Devonport, Devon. She spent most of her childhood in Portsmouth, living with her parents and five siblings. Her father was a naval doctor, and she had a comfortable middle-class upbringing. In 1887, Lockwood moved to London to study at the prestigious Slade Art School. She then spent several years travelling in Europe, before returning to live alone in London, to make a modest career as an artist although no occupation is given on her census return for 1911. She retained her gift for sketching and painting throughout her life. In 1902 she married Josiah Lockwood, a woollen manufacturer, and moved to Black Rock House in Linthwaite, a village in the Colne Valley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The couple never had any children. She came to political activism quite late, in her mid-40s, but embraced it whole-heartedly. She first became involved in public political work in around 1907, and for the next fifteen years she was a significant figure in local politics. She was originally converted to the suffrage cause after hearing Emmeline Pankhurst of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) speak at the 1907 Colne Valley by-election. Lockwood became President of the Huddersfield Branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and served on the executive of the Huddersfield branch of its successor organisation, the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC). Her suffrage activism included writing pamphlets, writing letters to local newspapers, attending, and speaking at meetings, distributing leaflets on walking tours, and personally persuading other women to take up the cause. She encouraged her maid, Minnie (who was also living at Black Rock House in 1911) to take an interest in politics. Using her artistic talents, she designed and embroidered the NUWSS branch’s ‘Votes for Women’ suffrage banner which depicted the Colne Valley. The banner was completed in 1911 and is now held in Huddersfield’s Tolson Museum. In 1913, she attended the International Woman Suffrage Alliance congress in Budapest. She was also involved in local politics more broadly. She was President of Colne Valley Women’s Liberal Association, served on the Huddersfield Liberal Executive, and worked as a Poor Law Guardian and a School Director. During the First World War, her beliefs changed, and she became an ardent pacifist, rejected liberalism, and converted to socialism. She attended Women’s International League meetings and was on the executive of the Huddersfield branch of the Union of Democratic Control. She had retired from political work by around 1921. When Josiah died in 1924, she moved to London, where she died in 1937. She kept a diary throughout her life, and the diaries for 1914-1920 survive at West Yorkshire Archives and Leeds University Archives. In 1932, she privately published her autobiography, An Ordinary Life. Sources: Manuscripts and Archives Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Archive Service KC909/1, F. Lockwood, ‘Autobiography of Florence Lockwood’ (unpublished typescript, 1905-1911). KC329/1, F. Lockwood, War Diary and Notes (manuscript, 1914-1915). KC329/2, F. Lockwood, War Diary and Notes (manuscript, 1916-1918). KC909/2, F. Lockwood, War Diary and Notes (manuscript, 1918-1920). Leeds, Leeds University Liddle Collection LIDDLE/WWI/DF/077, F. Lockwood, War Diary and Notes (manuscript, 1915-1916). Printed Leeds, Leeds University Liddle Collection LIDDLE/WWI/CO/056, F. Lockwood, Printed Diary Extracts (privately printed for small circulation, 1921). Lockwood, F., An Ordinary Life, 1861-1924 (Loughborough, 1932). Lockwood, F., The Enfranchisement of Women (Slaithwaite, undated). 'Obituary: Mrs. Lockwood', The Yorkshire Post, 31 March 1937, p.5. Secondary Sources Liddington, J., Rebel Girls: Their Fight for the Vote (London, 2006). Liddington, J., The long road to Greenham: feminism and anti-militarism in Britain since 1820 (London, 1989). Online Sources Kirklees Museums and Galleries, 'Huddersfield's Suffragist Banner', https://womenssuffrageinkirklees.blogspot.com/p/huddersfields-suffragist-banner.html. Contributed by Hannah Speed, PhD candidate, Glasgow 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 Florence Lockwood 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(-206627.5652385154 7098822.424247456) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b551bc9fe20323dad0a076a291817ed1.jpg 932b9a2355725fdb27050ed67da318a4 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 Cry of the Children. C. Hedley Charlton. Circa 1908. Courtesy The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/57f5e7340f7136c7163801a6fc1fdd99.jpg 38fba129b92e1c8988f08e670efe1e49 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 Greetings from the Alps. C. Hedley Charlton. Circa 1908/9. Courtesy The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fce42e85791e933e9a7803aa4f2502a9.jpg dd4c13b7c903def2e804085a16e53808 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 Charlotte's 1911 census record. Courtesy: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Artist 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 Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 103 Hampstead Way, London Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census ASL & NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Charlotte Charlton (sometimes known as Charlotte Hedley-Charlton) was born in 1866 and had seven siblings. Her mother and father, who was a coal merchant, were evidently prosperous in Charlotte’s younger years employing a governess and three servants. However, by the mid-1870s they had fallen on harder times and her father’s business was declared bankrupt. Consequently, it was important Charlotte found work and by 1891 she was teaching art at a boarding school in Saltburn, north Yorkshire. She later moved to London where between 1898-1910 she lived with suffragette Ethel Layton who in 1911 appeared in court with Marion Dunlop Wallace, for breaking two panes of glass at the Home Office. In 1911, Charlotte was lodging at 103 Hampstead Way and did not take part in the census boycott. She described herself as an ‘artist illustrator etc…magazines…etc…’ It was likely for career purposes that she signed her artwork ‘C. Hedley Charlton’ (Hedley being her father’s middle name) obscuring her gender and thus making her work more palatable to commissioning editors who were invariably men. By then, she was already a member and artist for the Artists Suffrage League formed in 1907, closely aligned with the law abiding NUWSS. Charlotte contributed to several jointly produced suffrage art works including illustrations for Cicely Hamilton’s ‘Beware! A Warning to Young Suffragists’ published in 1908 and the 'ABC of Politics for Women Politicians’ in 1909. She also produced individual post card designs for the ASL during these years including ‘The Cry of the Children’ and ‘I Pray for all Grown Ups’ available to view at The Women’s Library, LSE, London. The ASL archive there also holds several draft sketches for postcards designed by Charlotte. Whether she produced further suffrage designs for the ASL after 1909 is uncertain but she continued to independently advertise suffrage cards and calendars in the NUWSS newspaper The Common Cause. One design she submitted to the NUWSS during the First World War was considered too ‘wicked’ by them. In it three children are peering over a wall with the message: ‘When I an big I’ll buy a gun, And so will Babs & Sue. We’ll dead those Germans…every one…We’ll dead the Kaiser too’. Charlotte spent her last years living in Brighton close to one of her sisters. She died in 1945. Sources: Thanks to Elizabeth Crawford ‘Art & Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists’ (2018); The Women’s Library, LSE, London (ASL collection); The National Archives. 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 Charlotte Charlton 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(-21214.489315993444 6724088.177401561) NUWSS Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation No paid occupation Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 54 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Widow Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Chestnut Cottage, Hight Street, Wendover, Buckinghamshire 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 Florence Gertrude Hamilton (nee MacKenzie) had been born in Ireland in 1856 but with a father in the army the family moved around, and it was eventually in London that she met and married her husband in 1881. One child, Esme, was born to them in 1884 while they were in York but her husband’s job in the post office that meant he had different postings and by the 1890s they were based in Transvaal where William was Postmaster General. When he died in 1902, Gertrude seems to have changed her life quite radically. Based in Wendover from 1903 she gradually became involved in local charity work, and this may have drawn her into the society of women interested in the suffrage movement. She and her single sister, Maud, to whom she was very close, were contributing to Women’s Freedom League (WFL) ‘The Vote’ £50,000 Fund by 1908; Maud became secretary of an informal branch of the NUWSS; and they were both participating in the Church League for Women's Suffrage. By 1910 Chestnut Cottage where she lived was the centre of operations for organising meetings especially during the time Muriel Matters and her caravan were in the area campaigning for the WFL. By 1911 Florence had joined the Tax Resistance movement and four days after the census, which she seems to have evaded, her goods were distrained, and this also happened the following year. It was around this time that she became close friends with Muriel Matters who was later to write her obituary in The Vote. Florence seems to have left Buckinghamshire in 1912 moving back to her house in London, and then spending a few years in Findon, Sussex, where she and her sister established the Women's Village Council. To encourage women to influence the design of houses built by local authorities (so called state aided) it used the motto, later adopted by the Women’s Institute, ‘Till we have built Jerusalem in England’s Green and Pleasant Land’. From 1917 onwards her time was spent in promoting this organisation locally and then nationally, and then linking herself to the National Housing and Town Planning Society where she became the only woman on the Executive. In this role she was able to give support to the Australian author Miles Franklin who was working for the NHTPC. For Florence, campaigning for women's suffrage was very much linked to encouraging women’s active involvement as citizens. When she died in 1932, she was buried in Brompton Cemetery where the inscription on her grave reads: 'Our citizenship is in heaven'. Sources: 'Burning to Get the Vote: the women's suffrage movement in central Buckinghamshire, 1904 - 1914' by Colin Cartwright; A range of local, national and suffragist newspapers including: 'Women's Village Councils by Maud R. R. MacKenzie in, The Church Militant, April 1918; 'The Village Council of Women: their contribution to housing reform' in The Manchester Guardian, Mar 11, 1919; 'Women's Village Councils' by G. Home in The Vote 24 Nov, 1922; 'Women's Village Councils Federation for State-Aided Housing and Rural Problems' by Mrs Hamilton, The Common Cause, July 19, 1918. Contributed by Lynne Dixon, local and women’s history 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 Florence Hamilton 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(-82674.42545236766 6757310.730774507) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/6746c98a9ccd77b244735eb8fe746b18.JPG 2c70b6e0e40a6122f90a623cfaceb7d9 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 Edith (standing) circa 1907. Likely taken in South Africa during her Salvation Army days. Source: courtesy of The Women's Library (LSE) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/aa50a42218533314630fafc8dcdf5302.jpg b59746e1d28ee6580e2f3193bb1f9af9 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 Edith (left) in her WVP uniform with Constance Antonia 'Nina' Boyle. Source: courtesy Women's Library (LSE). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Journalist 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 185 King’s Road, Camden Town (now St Pancras Way) 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 Evades (absent abroad see biog) Biographical Text Edith Mary Watson (nee Wall) was born in 1888. To say that Edith did not have a good start in life is no exaggeration. She was born in the Hackney Union Workhouse the illegitimate daughter of Martha Wall, a domestic servant and single mother. Edith led an impressive life by any standards, becoming the first policewoman to wear a uniform, a campaigning journalist, a captain in the Salvation Army, a suffragist, Secretary of a pressure group on divorce law reform, and an early campaigner against female genital mutilation. Her mother Martha married Arthur Willett, and the family, including 3 stepsisters, moved to Marylebone. The family were Salvation Army members. Edith, thanks to the help of the wealthy mother of her Sunday School teacher, went to a good girl’s school, Hampden Gurney. Edith, while travelling in South Africa as a children’s nurse, decided to join the Salvation Army despite not being able to afford the uniform. It was then she suffered a sexual attack, and was nearly raped, by a fellow officer. This experience motivated her later work as a journalist and a campaign for female police officers and court officials to provide support to women. In 1910 she returned to London and became involved in the suffrage campaign with the Women’s Freedom League. She took part in the protest on the river Thames in 1913 where campaigners sailed past the Houses of Parliament singing protest songs. Edith was imprisoned in 1914 for chaining herself to the doors of Marylebone Magistrates’ court and began writing a suffrage column for the Daily Herald which by the 1930s, was the bestselling daily newspaper worldwide (it was Labour supporting and the precursor to The Sun before it was bought by Rupert Murdoch). Edith was also court correspondent for The Vote, the Women’s Freedom League’s newspaper. She wrote a series of pieces arguing against the injustices of a male dominated legal system. For example, comparing the lenient sentences handed down for domestic violence, sexual harassment, and abuse, contrasted to crimes against property. This was in a column ironically titled ‘the Protected Sex’. She met her future husband Ernest Watson around this time, and defying convention, they lived together before marriage. She spent some time in Algiers in 1911 and was likely there when the 1911 census was taken so appears to have been absent rather than evading. However, before she left that year, following an argument with Ernest, she was living with him in his ‘old room at his lodgings in Camden Town’ at 185 King’s Road, which is now St Pancras Way. As her last known location in 1911 this is where she is approximately located on the map. She and Ernest reconciled on her return, and they married in 1912. The couple had a son in 1919 but divorced a few years later. She continued to have live in relationships post-divorce. Edith wrote an autobiography which remains unpublished accessible via the Women’s Library (see sources). In it she describes how female journalists were not allowed in court when cases of an indecent nature were being heard. She knew women and girls were not believed, and they needed safeguarding as much as possible. She stated how “...Again and again, I heard a girl lose her case because she had not screamed…no man there seemed to understand why she had not done so if her story were true…why didn’t you scream? Because you needed that breath to fight…you are ashamed and embarrassed and want to abolish the very memory of it”. Edith was clearly drawing on her own experience. From 1914-1916 she served in the Women’s Volunteer Police Service (WVP) which she founded with (see) Constance Antonia ‘Nina’ Boyle (WFL). The service carried out patrols to assist women and children, and to counteract the restrictions placed on women by Victorian morality campaigners. Edith and Nina strongly believed women should have rights to public space. However, the WVP were increasingly used to control the behaviour of women (particularly working-class women) which was contrary to the original aims. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Boyle and Watson left. There were up to 5,000 women volunteers in the early days but by 1922 they were almost non-existent. The moral and social control they were being asked to enforce caused division amongst them and alienated the women they were supposed to be protecting. It wasn’t until 1923 that women police officers were officially sanctioned and given powers of arrest. Edith became an active member of the Independent Labour Party in the 1920s. She became friends with Fenner Brockway (later Lord Brockway, MP, and chairman and General Secretary of the Independent Labour Party) and his first wife Lila. The couple fostered Edith’s son for a while. Among her other exploits, Edith disguised herself as a nurse to obtain information for a campaign to improve conditions in mental hospitals; she criticised the Marriage Guidance Council for being too middle class; led a pressure group for divorce reform; and publicised the practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya. She was an active campaigner for women most of her life, dying in a nursing home in Worthing in 1966. Sources: Edith Watson Papers & autobiography, ‘Travelling Hopefully - the autobiography of a Nobody’ accessible at the Women’s Library, LSE; Edith Watson entry Oxford DNB. Contributed by Susan Doe, Hackney Historian (with a particular interest in women’s history). 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 Edith Watson 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(-15367.099104418334 6717894.350950394) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1c1df0d5d18ff23904bd75fa7c218275.jpg 4604640320ad79ce45ad5da041793d6b 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 Bessie Drysdale. Source: Courtesy Schwimmer-LLoyd Collection, NYPL. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/49504d983811ee32977aab201ebf37af.jpg ac1af1f0b3520c79be8665b6df646e1c 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 Bessie (tall figure left of centre) on 7th October 1911 march to Holloway Gaol. Christabel Pankhurst is on the right. Source: Courtesy Schwimmer-Lloyd collection, NYPL. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/6b64732de69489be1ed65ef351185f0d.jpg 4ba81d8dc68265afa1a14cc202d72445 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 Bessie's 1911 census return with a written protest across it. Source: Courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5115c6e1adc84a03b687304cca007c4d.jpg a7d20b10d8cbaa3ca74cdb012dcd4b08 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 Bessie (extreme left) at the Birth Control Congress, Holland, 1910. Source: Courtesy Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection, NYPL. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None known 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 Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 49 Rotherwick Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb, 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 Resists Biographical Text Bessie Ingman, known as Mrs Drysdale, was the ‘daughter-in-law’ of Dr Alice (Drysdale) Vickery and, like Alice, moved from constitutional to militant campaigning. On 14 February 1907, as a member of the WSPU National Executive Committee, she was one of 52 women arrested during a march to the House of Commons and spent 21 days in Holloway. In November of that year, she became a member of the first NEC of the breakaway WFL. In 1908 Bessie was a WFL delegate at the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Congress in Amsterdam; Charles Drysdale represented the MLWS. The involvement of the whole family in the campaign was demonstrated in the June 1908 procession to Hyde Park, organised by the WSPU: ‘in the WFL contingent, secretary Edith How Martyn walked with a pretty little girl, Eva Drysdale, whose father marched with the MLWS, whose mother was with the prisoners, and whose grandmother took her place with the veterans.’ (The Vote 25 June 1910) Bessie wrote across her page in the 1911 Census: ‘As the Government refuses me a vote and as I am not therefore recognised as a citizen, I refuse to perform the duties of one in giving the information required by the Government’, signing with her name as a member of the WFL. She represented the WFL at the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Congress in Stockholm that summer, reporting on it to The Vote, acknowledging some material supplied by Margery Corbett Ashby. At this time Bessie, Charles and Eva lived at 49 Rotherwick Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb. Alice lived at 47 and a local WFL branch was formed here, with Bessie as secretary. Photographs in the Schwimmer/Lloyd Collection in New York Public Library show that on 7 October 1911 Bessie and Charles took part in a procession to Holloway Gaol to protest against the imprisonment of Clemence Housman, for non-payment of rates. In one photograph Bessie is identified as the tall figure left of centre; on the right is Christabel Pankhurst. It is likely that Charles took and inscribed the photographs showing Bessie. He himself appears in another photograph, probably taken by Bessie, as the man on the right carrying a banner, immediately in front of Clemence Housman herself. Bessie remained on the WFL NEC until April 1912, when she and several other prominent members, including Edith How Martyn, announced that they had left to campaign independently. It was at this time, and presumably for Eva’s health, that the Drysdales acquired 13 acres at Heathfield, East Sussex, where they built a house, Cherry Croft, and Bessie attempted to establish a women’s co-operative fruit and chicken smallholding. After Eva’s death in 1914 this enterprise was abandoned and Bessie, during the War and under the auspices of the Malthusian League, published a series of leaflets emphasizing the need to reduce the birth-rate at a time of such shortages. After the War, she travelled the country, arranging meetings held by the American birth control campaigner, Mary Sanger, and promoting Ministry of Health birth control information. Sources: Frances Stenlake, 'Heathfield Story Discovered in New York Public Library' Sussex Family Historian, June 2014; LSE WL 9/01/00/90 HO-45-24665 arrest list; Women’s Franchise; The Vote; Votes for Women; The Woman’s Leader; The Times; Kent and Sussex Courier. Contributed by Frances Stenlake, Independent researcher & writer. 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 Bessie Drysdale 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(-21442.360313615558 6723580.905478084) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e0dc1f189b54af8817699385d16631d4.jpg 74d0b9499a70500f8feac68cc715d9b2 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 Dr. Alice Vickery. Source: Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection, New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3692a085b068cbb2e64d78528cd015cf.jpeg 0476fbe6e49b19f26fb545da15681d4a 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 Carte-de-visite of Alice Vickery, c. 1878-1902. Photograph by Bradshaw & Sons. Source: New York Academy of Medicine, Carte-de-visite collection. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e1de42b5a6f5919a3620cb08aa123f4a.jpg 4ec4b423f56bcd14efde16f58f686079 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 Family portrait of Alice Vickery with her son, Charles; daughter in law Bessie; & granddaughter Eva (1913). Source: The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Doctor Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 77 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 47 Rotherwick Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb 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 Alice Vickery (1834-1929) became, in 1873, the first woman in Britain to qualify as a Chemist and Druggist. In the same year she qualified as a midwife, and went to study at the University of Paris, as no British medical school at the time admitted women. In 1880 she was one of the first five women to qualify as a doctor at the London Medical School for Women. She practised among the poor of south London and was a pioneer adviser on contraception. Alice was sometimes referred to as Dr Alice Drysdale Vickery. Although they appear never to have married, Charles Robert Drysdale, Senior Physician at the Metropolitan Free Hospital, London, was known as her husband. He became the first President of the Malthusian League, founded in 1877 to promote birth control, Alice succeeding him in this position on his death in 1907. In 1898 the National British Women’s Temperance Association’s Woman’s Signal published Alice’s translation of the 1790 essay The Political Rights of Women by Nicolas, Marquis de Condorcet, one of the leading thinkers of the French Revolution. Alice also wrote for the 1890s feminist periodical Shafts. She was an early subscriber to the National Society for Women’s Suffrage, subsequently moving from the NUWSS to the WSPU, then to the WFL and the WTRL. In 1908 she was a WFL delegate to the Congress of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance in Amsterdam and became President of the Herne Hill and West Norwood WFL branch, lending her drawing room at 28 Carson Road, Dulwich, for weekly meetings. In 1911 Alice moved to 47 Rotherwick Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb, to live next door to her son, Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale, and Bessie Ingman, known as Mrs Drysdale. A meeting was held in her house to form the Hendon Women’s Franchise Society; speaking engagements elsewhere included a talk to the Actresses Franchise League on ‘The Injustices and Inequalities of Marriage Laws’ in company with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, President of the Divorce Law Reform Union. Alice evaded the 1911 Census and by 1913 had become a tax resister, having a gold and opal ring distrained after refusing to pay her rates. The Hendon Women’s Franchise Society was affiliated to the United Suffragists, formed in early 1914, and meetings at 47 Rotherwick Road were held in support of a successful woman District Council election candidate in March 1914 and, in September 1918, to protest about women being ineligible to stand for Parliament. Alice participated too in the suffragist demand to repeal Regulation 40D, introduced late in the War to allow for a woman to be remanded and imprisoned for the transmission of VD to a member of the forces. Moving to Brighton in 1923, Alice continued to be an active member of the WFL, speaking on the need to reform the laws concerning marriage and parenthood, and being elected President of the Brighton and Hove branch in 1925. Her death at the beginning of 1929 was marked by a full front-page obituary in Vote. Sources: NSWS reports (LSE WL online); The Woman’s Signal; Women’s Suffrage Journal; Women’s Franchise; Votes for Women; Common Cause; Kilburn Times; Hendon and Finchley Times; Woman Citizen; British Medical Journal. Contributed by Frances Stenlake, Independent writer & 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 Alice Vickery (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(-21382.13646910478 6723588.070115702) WFL