22 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fdb037ab72ce054163e77982d5b12ed3.jpg 710e1ca8c8b41fd964830cbca97f0e4c https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f2f8fae303da5ecaa8ea3047badd39a4.jpg dc00a78e39d283d96b8b95d797ae85c9 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 41 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 3 Rhodesia Avenue, Halifax, West Riding HX3 OPB Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Medical Doctor 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 Born in 1870, Helena Jones grew up in north Wales and became an early Fabian. One of the pioneer generation of impressive women doctors, she studied at the Royal Free in London, qualifying in 1901. A suffragette, she spoke at the great 1908 WSPU rally in Hyde Park ~ and soon impressed Emmeline Pankhurst.  Circa 1909 Dr Helena Jones was appointed the first schools’ Medical Officer for the West Riding, and moved up to live in Halifax. Despite her demanding job, she became the WSPU organizer for Halifax, linking the Pankhursts’ headquarters in London (undoubtedly by telephone) with local suffragettes - like Mary Taylor who lived just a short walk away. Helena Jones was the organizing genius behind Emmeline Pankhurst’s census boycott meeting in Halifax on Thursday 30 March 1911. It was  held in the town-centre Mechanics’ Institute Hall and Dr Jones took the chair at this crowded meeting. Three days later, on census night itself, Helena Jones was a very resolute evader: the enumerator wrote a statement to this effect on her schedule, which was signed by her domestic servant, the only occupant of the house. In World War I, Dr Jones worked in Corsica with the Fabian Relief Fund. She then returned to Wales, working as assistant Medical Officer of Health in the Rhondda, in charge of the maternity and child welfare clinic. She died in September 1946. For more see, Ryland Wallace, The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Wales 1866-1928 (University of Wales Press, 2009). 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 Helena Jones (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 POINT(-206951.92797074374 7114879.389367339) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/730433e9f406b55a1f7d416d6126640c.JPG 97ada88c8ebcc00aec41b56a986c38e5 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/59925008775aba66ff8cf9583c60c307.jpg 3062a73521e6f63cc1ce15b0440aada3 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 29 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 13 Park Place(?), off Queens Road, Halifax HX1 3XS. Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Probably a weaver 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 Lavena was born in Hebden Bridge in 1881, the daughter of a fustian dyer. Around her tenth birthday, she became a half-time tailoress in a local clothing factory, leaving school to work full-time soon after. In the 1901 aged 19, she is recorded as working as a machinist fustian clothing tailoress, still in Hebden Bridge. Little is known of Lavena’s next five years. However, finding small-town Hebden Bridge restricting, in c. 1906 she moved up to more cosmopolitan Halifax, working as a weaver. Here there were more like-minded women in the Women’s Labour League and in the WSPU. Living off Queens Road, Lavena found herself in the heart of Halifax’s nest of suffragettes. In March 1907, she went down to Westminster, was arrested ~ and imprisoned for 14 days. The next year, February 1908, she was again down in London, for the WSPU’s Women’s Parliament, was again arrested ~ and sentenced to 6 weeks. Such harsh prison sentences inevitably took their toll. And from 1908, Lavena seemed to distance herself from WSPU militancy. In ‘Suffragettes on the Tramp’, she and Laura Wilson dressed in old clothes, walked the 25 miles to Wakefield to experience life as a tramp. And increasingly Lavena turned to the  new educational opportunities offered by the Workers’ Education Association (WEA): she wanted to make up for her few years’ schooling, cut so brutally short. Lavena now found her voice ~ and was soon writing her wonderful ‘The Letters of a Tailoress’ (The Highway, WEA), reflecting back on the confining horizons of her late-Victorian girlhood. Lavena had emerged as a talented writer.  In March 1911, when Emmeline Pankhurst came to Halifax and spoke on the census boycott at the Mechanics’ Institute Hall, Lavena was probably sitting on the platform behind her. Three days later, on census night itself, she was undoubtedly an evader (from 13 Park Place, off Queens Road, where she was a boarder).  In 1917, she married George Baker, a private soldier, at the Unitarian Chapel, Halifax ~ and they moved to Bradford. Sadly, Lavena fell into virtual obscurity for the next 40 years. She died in 1957 in Bradford, one of the ‘the disappeared’.  For more see, Liddington, Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote, Virago Press 2006 (includes selections from Lavena’s writings). 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 Lavena Saltonstall 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(-209161.8870294605 7116985.81594354) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c555ad4a4e7e597c5a0a7733e873882e.jpg c0bee7c340b8a6ee31ce0fd18a3e154b https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ad06c06144e60d8f788e16156c03421c.jpg b9ec7e25029e09029df8f7f5a2617e79 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 31 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 22 Howard Street, off Pellon Lane, Halifax HX1 5RJ Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation Slave' 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 Born in Keighley in 1979, Dinah’s mother was unable to sign the birth certificate, just marking it with a cross. Dinah, who had been a woollen weaver, married Charles Connelly, a stone mason. They lived in the congested terraced housing of Halifax’s industrial suburbs ~ in 1901 just off Queen’s Road, and by 1911 at 22 Howard Street, by Pellon Lane. So Dinah lived at the heart of Halifax’s nest of suffragettes. At New Year 1907, Dinah was among the 22 Halifax women who signed the ILP Manifesto to the WSPU. Then in February 1907, Dinah went down to London to take part in the WSPU’s Women’s Parliament; she was arrested ~ and sentenced to 14 days in prison. Dinah Connelly complied with the 1911 census, Charles signed the household schedule, and all the information is provided. However, a closer look at Dinah’s occupation reveals that it is given as ‘slave’ (the word is deleted, presumably by the census official). Why ‘slave’? It’s easy to see. In 1911, Dinah’s family consisted of herself, Charles (undoubtedly coming home with clothes covered in stone dust), and three sons, aged 9, 2 and 11 months. All five were squashed into a small 4-roomed terrace house. Domestic slavery indeed. Dinah's house is now demolished, but the photograph featured here is of similar houses that remain at the end of her street. One of Dinah’s younger children, Laura Mitchell, later became Mayor of Halifax ~ and has an impressive Laura Mitchell health centre named after her in the town centre. 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 Dinah Connelly 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(-208922.55915714244 7118699.646811421) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d3de9a4bc990b8a9d004466bcd6c8e97.jpg 531e982d2e2f85d3f59ce44d58fd3c68 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 47 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 32 Skircoat Green, Halifax, West Riding, HX3 ORX Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation Not known 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 Mary and Arthur Taylor were pioneer members of the early labour movement in Halifax. As a member of the engineers’ union, he was victimized, lost his job  ~ and then was elected a Labour councillor. Mary was a key member of the Women’s Labour League and was elected a Poor Law Guardian. They had lived in the terraced suburbs of Pellon Lane, birthplace of Halifax’s nest of suffragettes. They had one daughter, Hilda, who as a teenager somehow managed to stay on at school. In 1905, the Taylors moved out of smoky Halifax to more rural Skircoat Green, and into a larger house ~ with six rooms. At New Year 1907, when the Halifax WSPU branch was formed, Mary was undoubtedly a moving spirit; and she was among the 22 Halifax women who signed the ILP Manifesto to the WSPU. Then in February 1907, Mary went down to London to take part in the WSPU’s Women’s Parliament, was arrested ~ and was sentenced to 14 days in prison. In 1911, when Emmeline Pankhurst came to address a crowded meeting in the Halifax Mechanics’ Institute on 30 March, Mary was undoubtedly present: her husband, Councillor Arthur Taylor, proposed the resolution supporting the Conciliation Bill. Certainly, for the census boycott three days later, we can be absolutely sure that Mary was an evader. Both Mary and Arthur Taylor were appointed magistrates. Alderman Arthur Taylor JP died in Dec 1923, and Mary Taylor JP in April 1934, aged 70. For more see, Liddington, Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote, 2006. 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 Taylor 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(-207407.50298675176 7114078.075421537) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a8396c68db783173f832dc41cec17fee.png 64ed061742b076e749adc50627b37dba 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 Selina Cooper 1890 (copyright LSE) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c781964954496ba2369bac1de02237ea.jpg eb2872be68d3ff8fafe7250ebd216a38 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 Petition. Permission of the Parliament Archives (ref: HC/CL/JO/6/797) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/69d29d3c705ff6b1c42f49465dbf8dd8.jpg 125aff8403ab769c2a153a27d767d1f1 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 Clitheroe Women's Suffrage Society, 1911. Selena Cooper is centre left. Lancashire Records Office https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/545e3fce44a8598415db3af9db686033.JPG 29c17649c341dc8ded9aea2b9e24cc12 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a136a9b30bb6d6c7e6f844c9b4d882cf.jpg 6f6ba1ea4a21489f9a2ae093b015f9b1 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 Women's Suffrage Society, Kirkdale by-election, 1910. Selina Cooper is seated on right. Lancashire Records Office. 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 43 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 59 St Mary's Street, Nelson, Lancashire, BB9 7AY Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation NUWSS organizer & Lecturer 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 Selina Cooper (1864-1946) at the age of 11 became a half-timer in a Lancashire cotton mill, working full-time from her thirteenth birthday. In 1896 she married Robert Cooper, a cotton weaver. Their son, John Ruskin, died as a baby; their daughter Mary was born in 1900; and the family moved into 59 St Mary’s Street, Nelson ~ where all three lived for the rest of their lives. Nelson was a hotbed of socialism, and the Coopers were drawn into the Independent Labour Party (ILP). Selina gained public speaking experience through the Women’s Cooperative Guild, and soon was collecting women cotton workers’ signatures on a suffrage petition ~ and in 1901 she accompanied the 29,359-signature petition down to Westminster. Selina was elected a Poor Law Guardian; in 1903 helped launch the Lancashire Women Textile Workers’ Representation Committee; and in 1906 organized the Nelson Suffrage Society which met in the Coopers’ small front room. By 1911, Selina Cooper had been employed as a NUWSS organizer for five years; an excellent public speaker, she travelled round the country, supporting pro-suffrage candidates ~ like young Bertrand Russell. In June 1911, she organized the local suffragist group, now called the Clitheroe Women’s Suffrage Society, on a special train down to London for the Coronation Procession (see image, taken on Nelson Station). Then, given the betrayal by Asquith’s Liberal Government, the NUWSS made an election alliance with the Labour Party; and from 1912, Selina Cooper was heavily in demand as a speaker, travelling the country to support Labour candidates at by-elections. From 1914, Selina Cooper, like others in the ILP, opposed the war and supported conscientious objectors. In 1924 she was appointed a JP; and in 1934 she joined a small deputation to Nazi Germany to visit four women prisoners. Selina Cooper died aged 81, and many years later, her house at 59 St Mary’s Street was commemorated with a blue plaque. For more see, Liddington & Norris, One Hand Tied Behind Us, 1978 & 2000. Liddington, The Life & Times of a Respectable Rebel, 1984. The Selina Cooper papers are deposited with the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. 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 Selina Cooper 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(-247318.6462443778 7138883.614277022) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b42539e2f1b7142b6d827d4fc3ce605e.jpg fb69eb15d1d9d6dc3990535ae52b3a47 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/70510680665e5bc45802d30b9b21741c.jpg cb4a476cccffe325190fd55f5e2f148c 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 29 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 4 Mill's Buildings, Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7LJ Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unmarried Occupation Art Student 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 Marjorie Hamilton was born in Derbyshire, the daughter of one of the partners in a local bank. After her father's death, Marjorie, her mother, and sister moved to Canada c. 1906. However by 1911 Marjorie had returned to England and, now an art student, was living in a boarding house in what was then a poor part of Knightsbridge. Although she had complied with the census, she was a member of the WSPU and was commissioned by them to produce the attractive flyer that advertised the suffrage Coronation Procession of 17 June. She also produced front-page cartoons for the 9 June and 8 September 1911 issues of the WSPU’s paper, Votes for Women. Marjorie Hamilton continued to work as an artist but eventually returned to Canada where, having married in 1926, she remained for the rest of her life 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 Marjorie 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 POINT(-17934.742117831356 6710593.875593986) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/816044b2f7f2d03e921e83e403104435.jpg a6a8a095403ecfe9e7f222d40fd4527b 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 Selling the Suffragette newspaper at Hampton Court. Source: The Museum of London. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9642dc9759bfd5d0de57ebe4037ca736.jpg b022c6a650189c7737e5338ca3e6b542 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 Sophia's residence. Photo: Elizabeth Crawford https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/6d9b3f213cd69ea1579855300a2aeb5f.jpg 02c671acca43e5fd0bc4e76f46ba6ec5 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/25f613a9b9aa2ba52861a1e53d05a037.png 78196bc5a010c71d4c53920ce7c62a4c 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 Sophia's WTRL sale of goods card to raise funds for tax resistance. Source: courtesy The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d9a66b19f97d381c77b3f0300c13cf7a.jpg a7541a375f63cf72ed9e2f9382141b93 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 to Lord Crewe mooting the possible removal of Sophia from her 'Grace and Favour' home at Hampton Court to stop her antics of selling the Suffragette newspaper outside. Source: Letter to Lord Crewe, The British Library. 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 34 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Faraday House, Hampton Court Road, East Molesey, KT8 9BW Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unmarried Occupation No occupation Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Biographical Text Sophia Duleep Singh, daughter of Maharajah Duleep Singh, was a god-daughter to Queen Victoria; her mother was German. Sophia was born a princess, but her father’s abandonment of his family meant that she was no stranger to suffering as a child. Her father left his family destitute and Sophia’s mother died soon after from alcoholism and depression. Sophia was a committed member of the WSPU, taking part in one of the deputations to Parliament on ‘Black Friday’ (18 November 1910) that resulted in violent scenes in Parliament Square. At another time, she threw herself onto the Prime Minister’s car pressing a ‘Votes for Women’ pamphlet against the windshield. She was arrested during the suffrage campaign, but was never sent to prison perhaps because of her high social status. She was a regular speaker at meetings of the Richmond branch of the WSPU and, as a member of the Women’s Tax Resistance League too, on several occasions had goods seized after she had refused to pay taxes (see images). In 1911, Sophia took part in the suffragette boycott of the government census survey writing 'No Vote No Census' across her census return. She also took to selling the Suffragette newspaper outside Hampton Court Palace where she lived, standing next to an advertising board (see image). This prompted calls for her removal from her ‘grace and favour’ home at the palace to try and stop such antics (see images, letter to Lord Crewe attached). For more information see, Elizabeth Crawford: The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A reference guide, 1866-1928 (London: Routledge, 2001) and Anita Anand, Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary. 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 Sophia Duleep Singh (Princess) 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(-38196.20729440058 6693352.550764525) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3098ed32cdfbc76d7ab1101befcc5c4f.jpg 10512561721260047a8a05dca67efda8 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3fd753b0625882f10548569947810990.jpg 00a4fa209284a49d8d2863609bfeed56 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Mapdata ©2017Google streetview https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0632bdfd8babad71647b49236a512111.jpg 4b1fab6ddfaa4d58a5f44d784bb20890 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1e9ebaac301da8927de888c65bae7fa8.jpg 2093fe6d9c92d66c6c3fce48a527a651 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 Portrait photograph of Margery Corbett Ashby by Haywards Heath photographer Eva Pannell, Schwimmer/Lloyd Collection, New York Public Library. 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 28 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 22 Langside Avenue, Putney, London SW15 5QT Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation Lecturer on Suffrage Politics 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 Margery Corbett Ashby (1882-1981) was the elder daughter of leading Liberal suffrage campaigners (see) Marie and Charles Corbett of Woodgate, Danehill, Sussex. In 1904 she and sister Cicely accompanied Marie to Berlin for the first International Women’s Suffrage Congress. With a BA from Newnham, Cambridge, Margery became secretary of the NUWSS, then joined the executive committee and was soon addressing public meetings in London and in Sussex: at Brighton Dome in October 1910 she was the principal speaker at the biggest event yet organised by the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society. While their father was briefly Liberal MP for East Grinstead and had a flat in London, she and Cicely formed the ‘Younger Suffragists’ there. This non-party, non-militant society’s inaugural meeting in December 1909 was chaired by Margery and addressed by Lady Betty Balfour of the Conservative Women’s Franchise Society. County Liberals and eminent suffrage campaigners gathered for Margery’s wedding to Brian Ashby in Danehill Church in December 1910. The couple subsequently lived in Langside Avenue in Putney, where we find them on the 1911 census and where Margery is described as a lecturer on suffrage and politics. Margery became a Poor Law Guardian in Wandsworth and chair of the Barnes, Mortlake and East Sheen branch of the London Society for Women’s Suffrage in 1914, the year her son was born. Yet she continued to speak for women’s suffrage in Danehill as well as in London: at a ‘drawing room’ meeting hosted by Mrs Firebrace of Danehurst in November 1912, as well as on a platform at the Hyde Park mass rally at the culmination of the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage in July 1913. When 1918 Representation of the People Act allowed women to stand for Parliament, Margery stood for the Liberals at several General Elections just to further the cause. At Ladywood, Birmingham, in December 1918, she was, as the sympathetic Mid Sussex Times reported, ‘snowed under’ by votes for Neville Chamberlain who then entered the House of Commons for the first time. Three years later she ‘made a splendid fight for Liberalism at Richmond’, supported by fellow Sussex Liberal, Lord Denman of Balcombe Place. The Mid Sussex Times took pride in announcing the achievements of ‘Charles Corbett’s clever daughter’ (sic), repeatedly reminding readers of her election in 1923 as President of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance, and in 1927 as President of the Women’s National Liberal Federation. In 1929, as President of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, the successor to the NUWSS, Margery attended a meeting at Balcombe Place to promote the formation of Townswomen’s Guilds in Sussex. Women having been granted equal voting rights with men in 1928, the NUSEC was, in 1933, succeeded by the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds, with Margery as President. As a member of the British delegation to the disappointing 1932-4 League of Nations World Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Margery worked with Lord Robert Cecil, of nearby Chelwood Gate, a founder member, with her father, of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage in 1907. In February 1935, these two luminaries of the women’s rights and peace movements emphasized to a packed audience in Danehill Memorial Hall the need to persevere with League of Nations peace efforts. Margery referring to having worked in 30 countries, spoke of ‘the feeling of the world for peace’. ‘It is our business to let the Government know what we want.’ She continued to live in the Putney area of London during much of her working life, later moving to back to Sussex. Margery Corbett Ashby was made a DBE in 1967. For more information see Margery Corbett Ashby in Elizabeth Crawford: The Women’s Suffrage Movement: a reference guide,1866-1928 (London: Routledge, 2001) and her entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The original entry has been added to and updated by independent researcher and writer Frances Stenlake using sources: Common Cause; Mid Sussex Times; Brighton Gazette; Danehill Parish Historical Society, Woodgate July 2010; Margery Corbett Ashby reminiscences recorded by J Bakewell 1972, Women' Library, LSE. 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 Margery Corbett Ashby 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(-26996.07857656981 6703699.433520841) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/89d886e41d80c71cf3459149684ad3ce.jpg 2ec5b29f3f7269e8d4ad09a9850aef81 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 53 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Glengariff, Kew Road, Kew Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation Analytical chemist Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census MLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text The whole Clayton family was deeply involved in the suffrage movement. Edwy Clayton’s wife, Clara, and daughter, Hilda, were very active members of the WSPU and the Church League for Women’s suffrage. In 1913 Clayton was suspected of providing materials to make explosives used in suffragette attacks on property. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison, went on hunger strike, and was eventually released under the Cat and Mouse Act. As a result of the prosecution his business was, apparently, ruined. Clayton belonged to the Men's League for Women's Suffrage and also the Men's Politcal Union (MPU). The Men's League was founded in 1907, 'with the object of bringing to bear upon the movement the electoral power of men... to obtain for women the vote on the same terms as which it is now, or may be in the future, be granted to men'. The MPU founded in 1910 was a militant society - the male equivalent of the WSPU. For more information see the entry for Edwy Clayton in Elizabeth Crawford: The Women’s Suffrage Movement: a reference guide, 1866-1928 (London: Routledge, 2001). 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 Edwy Clayton 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(-33209.164447299 6704107.118465527) MLWS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/675eb8c51403609a79b9b64047badc28.jpg ed6cce2a05435872c73f68c7a23039c3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Mapdata ©2017Google streetview https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/79e8fd4f9bba7dae0a9de768e94e87e9.jpg e20155314f4567bc07e155877000b516 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 25 West Park Road, Kew TW9 4DB Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Not known 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 Eileen Casey was born in Australia, the daughter of a doctor, and moved to England as a child. All the members of the Casey family became involved in the suffrage movement. Eileen had joined the WSPU by 1911 and on census night only Dr Casey was at home – his wife and daughters evaded. In March 1912 Eileen was imprisoned after taking part in a WSPU-organised window-smashing campaign in Oxford Street. She went on hunger strike and was forcibly fed. She was arrested again on several occasions, charged with setting fire to pillar boxes and imprisoned. After being released under the Cat and Mouse Act in late 1913 she evaded the police for eight months until she was arrested on a charge of possessing explosives in Nottingham in June 1914 at a time when a visit was due to be made to the city by the King and Queen. On 28 July she was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment but was released a few days later under the general amnesty granted to suffragette prisoners on the outbreak of the First World War. Eileen’s mother and sister were also arrested as a result of their suffrage activities, her mother spending some time in prison. Dr Casey fully supported their commitment to the suffrage campaign and in June 1913 allowed the family home to be used by Kitty Marion and Clara Giveen immediately after they had set fire to the stadium at Hurst Park. For more information see the entry for Eileen Casey in Elizabeth Crawford: The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A reference guide,1866-1928 (London: Routledge, 2001). 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 Eileen Casey 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(-31524.566593358886 6706017.0372021925) WSPU