25 10 290 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Not known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 45 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 The Acorn, Spout Hill, Rotherfield, East Sussex. 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 Maud Roll lived at The Acorn, a house built in the grounds of Oakdene, the home of her friend and fellow campaigner (see) Violet Honnor Morten. Maud appears to have been a member of the WSPU who joined the Women’s Tax Resistance League (WTRL), formed in 1909 of militant and constitutional campaigners. In 1911, she appears to have taken part in the WSPU boycott of the Census. Another Rotherfield resident, Dr Sophia Jex-Blake, had long railed against the taxing of unenfranchised women, and it was just months after her death in January 1912 that the Kent and Sussex Courier reported that Maud Roll would be the district’s first WTRL ‘martyr’. She would be supported by WTRL secretary Mrs Kineton-Parkes, MLWS (Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage) secretary Dr Charles Drysdale, of Heathfield, and Honnor Morten. The following week the Crowborough Weekly called the ‘No Vote, No Taxes Sale’ a unique event in Rotherfield history. Six silver teaspoons belonging to Maud Roll were auctioned and at the meeting held on the spot and chaired by Honnor Morten, Mrs Kineton Parkes’ standard resolution - that women were justified in refusing to pay taxes until the Government granted them the vote on equal terms with men - was seconded by Drysdale and carried with one dissentient. The spoons were returned to Maud Roll that evening by Dr Helen Webb, who lived across the lane from Maud Roll and Honnor Morten and was secretary of the Rotherfield and Mark Cross branch of the NUWSS. The spoons were a present from her committee. The following year in 1913, the supportive Daily Herald carried a notice of a public auction and protest meeting to be held at Mark Cross on 24th May. The Kent and Sussex Courier reported that Maud Roll and Honnor Morten had again refused to pay their taxes and had yielded to the police a silver salver and a gold ring for public auction. These items were sold from a wagonette on the village street where a crowd of more than 150 people assembled. Immediately after this second distraint sale, another protest meeting was held by the WTRL. Maud Roll presided, declaring that she and Honnor Morten would be at Mark Cross crossroads every year until they won the right to vote. The large crowd was also addressed by Anne Cobden Sanderson, founder member of the WTRL, and by Reginald Pott of the MLWS. In June 1914 Maud Roll was the subject of a third distraint sale, when a silver dish was auctioned in the Pantiles Assembly Rooms, Tunbridge Wells. The protest meeting held outside on the Common afterwards, was addressed both by Mrs Kineton-Parkes and by Mrs Cavendish Bentinck of the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage. The following month Maud Roll, who moved into Oakdene following Honnor Morten’s death, hosted a meeting there of Dr Helen Webb’s NUWSS branch - the speaker being Ada Nield Chew, a former factory worker, now a NUWSS working women’s organizer, who was listened to with great interest by the audience, many of whom were cottagers. From 1924 until 1934 Maud Roll was to serve on the Uckfield Rural Council as one of the three members for Rotherfield, and as a JP from 1931, until she moved to Tunbridge Wells in the early 1940s. Contributed by Frances Stenlake, Sussex suffrage 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 Maud Roll 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(26009.264686672042 6630600.906089321) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e83571895d1622ac8f3ce27eeec92d29.jpg 9a8012c7486c34b54a619982da9c0eea Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Teacher Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 37 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 21 Chaucer Street, Nottingham Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text May, as she was known, was born in Berkshire and was one of 10 siblings. Her father died when she was aged 26. May was a teacher and worked in a private school. It seems that May moved to Nottingham in about 1901 where she worked for the Education Committee for twenty-nine years. She was involved with the NUWSS but became active in Nottingham's WSPU branch in about 1907 and was elected Honorary secretary in 1908 until a paid organiser Rachel Barrett was appointed later that year. May was present in London on 24th of February,1909, when (see) Helen Kirkpatrick Watts was arrested outside the House of Commons. She wrote to Helen warmly supporting her action, saying she had ‘suffered terribly for the Cause’ while May herself felt a 'desperate coward' as she had escaped the worst of the conflict. In April 1911, May evaded the government census survey as part of a wider suffragette boycott, but her mother and sisters Hannah and Kate and brother George, were home at 21 Chaucer Street - unfortunately no longer there. May went on to teach at Mundella Grammar School for some years becoming Head of the Clarendon School for Girls in 1925. She died at home at 4 Whittingham Road in Mapperley after a short illness. The Nottingham Evening Post reported her death and funeral which was attended by Aldermen, Councillors, and Education Committee members. Source: No Surrender :Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire - NWHG. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource May (Catherine Mary) Burgis 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(-128684.3294636941 6975082.596230316) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3ad250f846bc4b985ec931c34f6698ab.jpg 362e304abe8554de07fee5aed0d90cb0 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: courtesy of The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Horticulturalists Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 27 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census The Flower Farm, Upper Station Road, Henfield, West 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 May Martin Le Lacheur (1884-1944) was a daughter of Congregationalist merchant banker John Allen Le Lacheur of The Wilderness, Tunbridge Wells. Gladys Sherris (1885-1939), recorded as staying at The Wilderness from 1907, was the elder daughter of a Royal Navy paymaster. By 1908 Dorothy de Jersey Le Lacheur, one of May’s sisters, was holding local WSPU meetings at The Wilderness. Dorothy and May, with their elder brother and Gladys, took part in the WSPU demonstration in Hyde Park on the 21st of June 1908, driving to London in a motor car decorated with rosettes in green, white, and purple. Later in 1908, Dorothy set up a Tunbridge Wells branch of the Women’s Freedom League (WFL) running this as secretary. Her mother became treasurer of the Tunbridge Wells branch of the NUWSS. Meetings of both societies were held at The Wilderness. In the spring of 1909, as ‘M Martin, The Wilderness, Tunbridge Wells’, May placed a small ad in the WSPU’s Votes for Women newspaper: ‘Lady gardener seeks situation in private or market garden; full training; certificates and practical experience’. Nothing appears to have come of this, and a year later she and Gladys had established the Flower Farm in Upper Station Road, Henfield, and were advertising in Votes for Women, ‘boxes of choice cut flowers’ and ‘strong transplanted seedlings.’ As a commercial enterprise, the Flower Farm never rivalled the merchandise and marketing developed by (see) the Misses Allen-Brown at the Violet Nurseries nearby. As women of means, May and Gladys could afford to concentrate instead on winning professional prestige by entering their produce in top-class competitions. In July 1910, their success at the annual Women’s Agricultural and Horticultural International Union Show at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Regent’s Park, was reported in, significantly, the NUWSS paper The Common Cause: ‘Misses May M Le Lacheur and Gladys Sherris, FRHS, who within the last 12 months have established a nursery garden at Henfield, were awarded the silver Knightian medal for English hothouse melons, and a first prize for giant sweet peas and a second prize for roses.’ In 1911, as confirmation of a shift from militant to non-militant, May and Gladys complied with the Census, signing it as ‘Suffragists and nursery gardeners’ (see image). In 1912, they joined other Henfield women, notably (see) Elizabeth Robins and the Misses Allen-Brown, in contributing to a fund to help the Pethick-Lawrences, following the couple’s ejection from the WSPU. One likes to picture this group of women gathered together on the 14th of May 1913, when (see) Florence de Fonblanque and her Marchers Qui Vive, who were staying overnight in Henfield on their way from Horsham to Brighton, held a meeting in the village at 7pm. Two months later May and Gladys again triumphed at the Women’s Agricultural and Horticultural International Union Show, winning first prize for their ‘striking collection of herbaceous plants’ and were named among the ‘chief prize-takers who showed that lady gardeners are able to hold their own against male competitors’. May and Gladys left Henfield during the War, Gladys to take up ambulance work at the Front until her marriage in 1917.Sources: Kent and Sussex Courier, Votes for Women, Common Cause, Cheltenham Examiner 17 July 1913, Westminster Gazette 11 July 1913, The National Archives. 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 May Le Lacheur & Gladys Sherris 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(-31419.25835508311 6609533.938531866) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1e5945ca36dc694635390ea222bb79fb.jpg fcc6771bce25718ac24d18dc178b21ba 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 Mildred Mansel. Source: https://oldshirburnian.org.uk/sherborne-the-fight-for-womens-suffrage/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/31ebc5cbcb32b2fa4c11cf0eeceb9d86.jpg 9ba8964a92a8dbdf62715f643ac6a7b4 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 Mildred Mansel's tree at Eagle House. The plaque states: Planted by Mildred E. Mansel 21 October 1910. Source: Photo taken by Colonel Linley Blathwayt (Bath, 1910) from Bath in Time, Bath Central Library Collection. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/110cfa8eae5f7fefe812ec6af73ab72b.jpg 0d1ca013c7d3012b95276d1f25b39812 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: courtesy The National Archives https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9b06f2c8862ba052034090aed39243c9.jpg 5e4e34d999167c58ebfa4c2ddc2a6683 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 Speaker Lady Constance Lytton, Mrs Mansel in the chair. Wednesday 28th September 1910 at 3pm. Second seats (tea included) 1 shilling (Bath, 1910). Source: Bath in Time, Bath Central Library Collection. 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 43 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 Bayford Lodge, Wincanton, Somerset 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 Mrs Mildred Ella Mansel (1868-1942) was the daughter of women's suffrage campaigner, Adeline Chapman and her first husband, Arthur Guest, and granddaughter of Lady Charlotte Guest, the linguist, businesswoman and collector. Her cousin, Ivor Guest, was a Liberal Chief Whip and staunch anti-suffragist. She was married in 1888 to Colonel John Delalynde Mansel and had two daughters and a son. By 1909, Mrs Mansel had become a member for the Women's Social and Political Union and was arrested that year after taking part in a deputation from Caxton Hall. After chairing the Sherborne NUWSS organisation in 1909, in 1910, she became the organiser for the Bath WSPU, in the same year she also set up a branch in Yeovil. In 1911, Mrs Mansel organised the Bath WSPU Census Evasion and hired 12 Lansdowne Crescent in Bath so that suffrage protestors could stay the night to evade the census. Thirty-six women in total evaded the census, including Mary Blathwayt, another prominent suffragette from Bath (see image). On the 6th of April 1911, the 'Bath Chronicle' produced an extensive report on the events. Mrs Mansel had invited a reporter to interview her and to show him where the evasion was going to take place before the evasion took place. The reporter met Mrs Mansel in Bath and together they walked to the house where ‘she seized the opportunity afforded by the walk to attempt to show what an unanswerable cause the Suffragettes have.’ Although being known to support militant methods, Mrs Mansel was able to tactically promote the event as anti-militant, and yet by inviting an outside witness, the reporter from the 'Bath Chronicle', into their temporary home, the women had invited the wider Bath community to reflect on the ideology of femininity and the women’s sphere, and how that very realm could in fact be a site of radical and political resistance. Mrs Mansel was fundamental to the women's suffrage campaign in Bath. As well as writing often for the 'Bath Chronicle'. The meetings she chaired for the Bath WSPU branch were often reported on, whilst her activities, such as leading many demonstrations within the city, were also acknowledged. As well as the Census Evasion, Mildred Mansel was a supporter of tax evasion; in the same year as the Census Evasion, Mrs Mansel led a demonstration at a Bath auction house to promote these tactics. In 1910, Mrs Mansel planted a tree at the Blathwayt's living memorial arboretum for the women's suffrage cause at Eagle House in Bath, alongside many other trees planted by suffragettes who had visited, including the Pankhursts. The arboretum is destroyed, but her plaque has survived and is at the Roman Baths museum. Elsewhere outside of Bath, Mrs Mansel was also highly active. She was imprisoned for a week after smashing windows at the London War Office, she was great friends with Lady Constance Lytton, and in 1913 she visited Christabel Pankhurst in Paris. Mrs Mansel also owned an apartment in London where she could carry out her activism from the city. Contributed by Ellis Naylor (BA, MA) Bath Spa University. Sources: Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, (Routledge, 2003); Hammond, Cynthia, ‘Suffragette City: Spatial Knowledge and Suffrage Work in Bath, 1909-14’, in Bath History Volume XIII, ed. By Graham Davis, (Bath Spa University, 2013); John, Angela V. 'Schreiber [née Bertie; other married name Guest], Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (1812–1895)' (2004) https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-24832?rskey=LjEZFR&result=2; Crawford, Elizabeth, 'Chapman [née Chapman; former married name Guest], Adeline Mary (1847–1931)' (2019); Hassall, Rachel, 'Sherborne & the fight for women’s suffrage' (2020) https://oldshirburnian.org.uk/sherborne-the-fight-for-womens-suffrage/; Newspapers the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, from the British Newspaper Archives (1910-1914). 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 Mildred Mansel 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(-266382.3094151557 6631950.383754498) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8e19a477defd41ab6b2242d85d62ed1e.jpg 9dac641560e88022c2dd360da2f55d72 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 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 14 Gomm Road, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey Occupation Probably Social worker at Bermondsey Settlement Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unknown Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single 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 Miss Bowers was likely a social worker at the Bermondsey Settlement in 1911. She 'resisted' the government's census survey that year as part of a boycott organised by suffrage societies prepared to break the law like the Women's Freedom League (WFL) and the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in protest at women's exclusion from the parliamentary vote. It's likely Miss Bowers colluded in the census protest with fellow Settlement workers living nearby at 63 Union Road, as their defiant messages and hers 'Not filled in as protest against a non representative Government' are uncannily similar (see census image). She is currently ascribed circumspectly on our map to the WFL along with her fellow 'conspirators'. Do you know anything about Miss Bowers? Could you find more? If so please contact us. 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 Miss Bowers 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(5954.190131027311 6709184.070968044) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cf6f088321e7babedbf62838eb058fc8.jpg 2741743a05ae0a705c876667de4e69e3 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 Miss Britten's blank census form for 63 Union Road which she refused to fill in in protest at not having the vote. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 63 Union Road, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Occupation Probably a Social Worker at the Bermondsey Settlement Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unknown Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL? Biographical Text Currently, we know little of Miss Britten other than she was most likely a social worker at the Bermondsey Settlement with her housemates (see) Anna Martin and Maria White Frank and that the three women took part in the suffrage boycott of the government census survey in 1911 in protest at not having the vote. Miss Britten chose to leave her census form blank as did fellow resident Maria White Frank. Like Maria, Miss Britten wrote on the cover instead 'I refuse to fill up form as a protest against a non-representative Government'. The boycott was organised by suffrage societies whose members were often prepared to break the law such as the Women's Freedom League (WFL) and the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). It is suggested here that Miss Britten likely belonged with her housemates to the WFL. Could you shed more light on Miss Britten for our map? If so, please do contact us. 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 Miss Britten 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(-6518.123539358456 6709999.205369114) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/033eba1e373cfb7ab6f21db9a3eca7eb.jpg 0e63ed516b93286a309c2661869f7f7b 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: Courtesy The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 39 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Divorced Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Old Hall, Ashdown Forest, 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 Muriel was a daughter of Liberal politician Thomas Brassey, eldest son of the railway magnate, and his first wife, Annie. After divorcing Gilbert Sackville, Earl de la Warr, in 1902, Muriel took up residence at Old Lodge on Ashdown Forest. In March 1911 she donated to WSPU funds and sent to the Bexhill Chronicle the WSPU’s reply to Winston Churchill’s attack on it, protesting particularly about the force-feeding of men suffrage activists. At this time Muriel was staying with her friend, American heiress Mary Hoadley Dodge, at Warwick House, St James, where she and her maid are listed as visitors in the 1911 Census. In April 1911 Muriel presided, supported by Louisa Martindale, at a Horsted Keynes meeting, attended by a ‘large, fashionable and enthusiastic audience’, and addressed by Lord Robert Cecil. In the Coronation Procession of 17th June she accompanied Millicent Garrett Fawcett and her entourage. In the autumn of 1911 Muriel became President of the East Grinstead Women’s Suffrage Society formed by Marie Corbett. Vice-Presidents included Lady Sybil Brassey, the second wife of Muriel’s father, and Lady Eleanor Cecil. Meanwhile Muriel and Lady Betty Balfour, President of the Conservative Women’s Franchise Association, had been ‘working indefatigably’ to make Emmeline Pankhurst’s tour of the Highlands ‘a great success’. As Betty Balfour said, presiding over Lady Cowdray’s ‘At Home’ at Dunecht House, ‘Now that the Government has promised facilities for the Conciliation Bill, all suffrage societies are working heart and soul together’. In November 1911 Muriel chaired a WSPU meeting in South Kensington, addressed by Elizabeth Robins and Evelyn Sharp. In February 1912 she was on the platform at a NUWSS Albert Hall event presided over by Millicent Garrett Fawcett and addressed by Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Betty Balfour’s brother Lord Lytton, chair of the Conciliation Committee. A meeting chaired by Muriel at Brockenhurst Ladies College, Seaford, resulted in the formation of a NUWSS branch there. In November, now President also of the Rotherfield and Mark Cross Women’s Suffrage Society, Muriel attended another NUWSS public meeting in the Albert Hall where one of the speakers was Lord Robert Cecil. For the Midlothian by-election in September 1912, Muriel, a committee member of the NUWSS Election Fighting Fund, lent at least one car to the suffrage-supporting Labour Party. She similarly supported George Lansbury when, in November 1912, he resigned his seat of Bow and Bromley in order to force a by-election and stood independently as a Socialist Women’s Suffragist. In January 1913 Muriel became President of the new Federated Council of Women’s Suffrage Societies, comprising 18 non-militant suffrage organisations, and run under the auspices of the National Political League. She participated in a National Political League demonstration in March, and conference in April, calling upon the Government to stop this ‘barbarous custom of forcible feeding’. She was a signatory of protests against the Cat and Mouse Act, and in May 1913 was one of the few women to attend the Bow St trial of seven WSPU officials WSPU, including Beatrice Sanders, and two men. Muriel and Mary Dodge were thanked for supplying cars for the NUWSS Pilgrimage in July 1913, and, in September, Muriel’s ‘large and comfortable motor car’ made Lady Frances Balfour and her companions ‘independent of the vagaries of Highland trains’, on their campaigning tour of Scotland. In 1917 Muriel joined the National Council for Adult Suffrage, and in the December 1918 General Election supported Major Graham-Pole, Labour candidate for the East Grinstead Division, whose publicity gave as the ninth of ten reasons for voting for him that ‘he stands for equal rights for men and women’. Sources: WSRO 54752 E Grinstead WSS report; WSRO 54746 Marie Corbett letter; Daily Herald; Manchester Courier; Bexhill Observer; Bexhill Chronicle; Croborough Weekly; Hastings and St Leonards Observer; Kent and Sussex Courier; Mid Sussex Times; Sussex Express; Common Cause; Vote; Votes for Women; Women’s Dreadnought. 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 Muriel de la Warr (Countess) 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(8670.118539227222 6630432.442855885) NUWSS Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Campaigner Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 29 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 The Residence, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Muriel was born on 25th Feb 1882, the eldest daughter of George Wallis who was Director of the Castle Art Gallery. Her mother was Kate Carey - from a well-known and socially active Nottingham family, including women’s suffrage appearing on the list of Patrons for the East Midland Federation of the NUWSS Fete in 1912 – along with her sister, Henrietta Carey. Muriel was active in the NUWSS and the WSPU from about 1907 and took part in several London processions between 1909-1911. She was arrested for “wilfully obstructing Police whilst in the execution of their duty” on ‘Black Friday’, 18th November 1910 at the Deputation to Parliament. She was bailed for £2 and bound over to keep the peace but not imprisoned. She was almost certainly an evader boycotting the 1911 Census and cannot be located anywhere that night. We also know from her scrapbook that she went to a meeting at Morley’s Cafe on 22 March 1911 at which the speaker, Mrs Simon Massey, said the census offered “an excellent and most logical method of protest.” Muriel was also a member of the National Council of Women and a member of the General Council of the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) with whom she worked for over 25 years. She was also a member of the Guild of Helpers, strongly associated with the work of the Nottingham and Notts Convalescent Homes, and the Social Guild. In 1914 when girls employed in the lace trade were thrown out of work, she opened a shop on Derby Road for some of the girls who successfully found employment manufacturing unbreakable dolls, in a small factory run in the Park-passage [now the eastern end of Lenton Rd. next to the Castle] until 1922. Muriel died on the 21st January 1929 at no. 26 The Ropewalk. Her obituary in the Nottingham Evening Post (23 Jan. 1929) said that “Miss Wallis was well known in the district and engaged herself in social and philanthropic work on an extensive scale”. She is buried in the Carey plot at Church cemetery. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Sources: No Surrender! Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire, Rowena Edlin-White (Ed.) Nottingham Women's History Group ISBN:978-1-900074-31-5 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 Muriel Wallis 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(-128536.83113841354 6973696.608535201) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/15c8f853730299578008cbbad357a888.jpg 3a41a4b8a195e661965c81195371f258 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 Very Reverend Edward Maclure (1895) by Myra Luxmoore. Source: courtesy Manchester Art Gallery. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/843456f8330dc88df7fe798c1b28e9c9.jpg c8e5b5e5496b632e53cc14e92d008aac 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 painting of an unknown woman in black (dated circa early twentieth century) by Myra Luxmoore. Source: https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/print-edition/2020/march/2435/auction-reports/portraits-of-mystery-young-women-catch-the-eye-in-auctions/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0846b7c8c96855fb1959c516f89e6d78.jpg 5b36946668237ac5757a3dd71d22658c 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 Myra's only known suffrage postcard produced for the CUWFA. Source: photo courtesy of Elizabeth Crawford with permission from Ken Florey https://womanandhersphere.com/?s=luxmoore 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 51 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 57 Bedford Gardens (studio 1) Kensington, London Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Myra Elizabeth Luxmoore (1860-1918) was born in Paddington, London. After a brief spell in south Wales the family moved to Devon where in 1881 Myra was described as an ‘art student’ though it is not clear where she studied. Myra was a portrait and figure painter and in 1881 exhibited as an associate with the Society of Women Artists and by 1891 had moved to London where she exhibited regularly from 1905 with the Royal Academy. Among her exhibits was a portrait of Lady Balfour (1894) and one of the daughter of Sir John Craggs MVO. Featured (images) are her paintings of the Very Reverend Edward Maclure (1895) and a painting of an unknown woman in black (dated circa early twentieth century). Myra also drew inspiration from her travels in northern France (glimpsed in a painting of a Breton harbour scene) and Palestine which inspired a biblical painting (c.1912) owned by Sister Agnes Mason (founder of the Community of the Holy Family). Myra joined the London Society for Women’s Suffrage (NUWSS) in 1909 and was also secretary of the Kensington branch of the Conservative & Unionist Women’s Franchise Association (CUWFA) for which she also produced a suffrage postcard entitled ‘Woman’s cause is Man’s: They rise or sink together’. She also held numerous suffrage meetings in her spacious studio (no.1) at 57 Bedford Gardens, Kensington. Some of the meetings were recorded by suffrage campaigner Kate Frye in her diary (see sources below) which gives some fascinating glimpses into the meetings where there was often ‘a crush of people and no end of helpers’. Although Myra belonged to law abiding suffrage societies the CUWFA and NUWSS, she likely took part in the organised suffragette boycott of the 1911 census as she is nowhere to be found on the census record. The census official noted that Myra was was the occupier of the flat but listed it as ‘unoccupied’ that night. Sources: E Crawford (Ed.) Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary (Francis Boutle, 2013) & Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists (Francis Boutle, 2018). Contributed by Tara Morton (Warwick University) as part of the Mapping British Women Artists 1750-1950 project & Research Group, which is affiliated with The British Art Network (led and supported by Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, with public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 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 Myra Luxmoore 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(-21903.890922380222 6711255.7810176425) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2e56f8084cf4dfa10ec00d70d999f043.jpg 085993dbc05b7fa0a3dd35e2dbf28461 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: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Possible WSPU worker Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Not Known 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 58 Marlow Moor Road, Didsbury, Manchester 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 Miss Nellie Allen was active with the WSPU in 1911 at least through until the close of 1913. In 1911, she took part in the suffragette boycott of the government census survey. She wrote across her form for 58 Marlow Moor Road, that 'Until women are recognised by the government as citizens, I refuse to do a citizens duty - No Vote - No Census' and she signed it Nellie Allen. The census official speculates on the form, probably after a conversation with neighbours: 'I understand Miss Allen has a brother and a domestic servant living with her' none of whom were present. By 1913, Nellie was co-treasurer of the WSPU Manchester branch with Miss Wallwork: the two using an office at 32 King Street West. Can you find out more about Nellie Allen to add to her story on the map? If so, please contact us via email. Nellie was contributed to our map by Mark Morreau. 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 Nellie Allen 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(-249510.61607338488 7061225.809360197) WSPU